- The Cowards' Guide to World Literature: Josef Škvorecký's American Epigraphs
- Brian K. Goodman
- The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain, pp.105-140
- History of the transmission of literature and culture between the two countries that assisted in the transformation of Prague "into an international capital of dissent." Discusses Hemingway's influence on Czech Canadian writer, editor, and publisher Josef Škvorecký, who included a quotation from Hemingway's introduction to Men at War as an epigraph for his 1958 novel, The Cowards. Chronicles Škvorecký's efforts at importing and translating works by Hemingway and other American writers in the face of Communist censorship. Includes commentary on Hemingway's shifting reputation and outright ban from 1939 to 1955 in the Soviet Union. References A Farwell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Men at War, and The Old Man and the Sea.
- Harvard University Press; Cambridge
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Book chapter
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