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Jonathan Bolton

Jonathan Bolton is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where he teaches Czech and Central European literature and history. He is the author of Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (2012) and has edited and translated In the Puppet Gardens: Selected Poems, 1963–2005 (2007) by the Czech poet Ivan Wernisch. icon

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B-Sides: Ivan Olbracht’s “Nikola the Outlaw”

By Jonathan Bolton

Some of Central Europe’s greatest political novels have been meditations on disillusionment. Many of them—from Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon to ...

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