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Tables of Contents for The Deserts of Bohemia
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Politics or Poetics: An Introduction
1
24
Tropos Kynikos: The Good Soldier Svejk
25
44
Jaroslav Hasek
Radical Liberalism: Apocryphal Stories
69
25
Karel Capek
The Past Perfect Hero: Julius Fucik and Reportage: Written from the Gallows
94
57
The Poetics of a Political Trial: Working People vs. Rudolf Slansky and His Fellow Conspirators
151
45
Ironies of History: The Joke
196
22
Milan Kundera
Cops or Robbers: The Beggar's Opera
218
23
Vaclav Havel
Index
241