Lucifer Unemployed

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Lucifer Unemployed (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

The momentous historical events in Eastern and Central Furope which began to take shape in 1989 contain important cultural and literary aspects. In cultural terms, greater access to the intellectual life and thought of countries previously known largely, and to some degree stereotypically, as members of the Soviet bloc is becoming available. And from a strictly literary point of view, texts which might otherwise have remained suppressed or been denied translation are being published with sufficient regularity as to facilitate at least a preliminary redrawing of the artistic map of...

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