Censorship in Twentieth-Century Literature

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Anna Akhmatova
Stikhotvoreniya, 1909-1957 (poetry) 1958
Poema Bez Geroya; Triptykh [Poem Without a Hero; Triptych] (poetry) 1960

Richard Aldington
Death of a Hero (novel) 1929

Guillaume Apollinaire
Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (novel) 1907
Les onze mille verges (novel) 1908

Djuna Barnes
Ryder (novel) 1928

Breyten Breytenbach
And Death White As Words: An Anthology of the Poetry of Breyten Breytenbach (poetry) 1977

Joseph Brodsky
Stikhotvoreniia i poemy (poetry) 1965
Ausgewahlte Gedichte (poetry) 1966
Xol 'mi (poetry) 1966
Elegy to John Donne and Other Poems (poetry) 1967
Velka elegie (poetry) 1968
Ostanovka v pustyne (poetry) 1970

William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch (novel) 1959
The Soft Machine (novel) 1962
The Ticket That Exploded (novel) 1962

Erskine Caldwell
God's Little Acre (novel) 1933

Theodore Dreiser
The Genius (novel) 1915

Jean Genet
Notre-Dame-Des-Fleurs [Our Lady of the Flowers] (novel) 1942
Journal du voleur [The Thief's Journal] (novel) 1949

Allen Ginsberg
Howl, and Other Poems (poetry) 1956

Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Polden: Delo o demonstratsii 25 avgusta 1968 goda na Krasnoi ploshchadi [Red Square at Noon] (anthology) 1969

Nadine Gordimer
The Lying Days (novel) 1953
A World of Strangers (novel) 1958
The Late Bourgeois World (novel) 1966
July's People (novel) 1981

Günter Grass
Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum] (novel) 1959

Radclyffe Hall
The Well of Loneliness (novel) 1928

Vaclav Havel
Zahradni slavnost [The Garden Party] (play) 1963
Vyrozumeni [The Memorandum] (play) 1965
Ztizena moznost soustredeni [The Increased Difficulty of Concentration] (play) 1968

Bessie Head
When Rain Clouds Gather (novel) 1969
Maru (novel) 1971
A Question of Power (novel) 1973

Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms (novel) 1929

Zbigniew Herbert
Pan Cogito [Mr. Cogito] (poetry) 1974
Raport z oblezonego miasta [English Report from the Besieged City] (poetry) 1983

James Joyce
Ulysses (novel) 1922

Milan Kundera
La vie est ailleurs [Life Is Elsewhere] (novel) 1973
La valse aux adieux [The Farewell Party] (novel) 1976
Le livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting] (novel) 1979

Alex La Guma
A Walk In the Night, and Other Stories (short stories) 1967

D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow (novel) 1915
Lady Chatterley's Lover (novel) 1928

Mario Vargas Llosa
La ciudad y los perros [The Time of the Hero] (novel) 1964

Pierre Louÿs
Trois filles de leur mère [The She-Devils] (novel) 1926

Naguib Mahfouz
Children of Gebalawi [Children of the Alley] (novel) 1967

Osip Mandelstam
Kamen [Stone] (poetry) 1913
Tristia (poetry) 1922

Frederick Manning
The Middle Parts of Fortune [All Privates We] (novel) 1929

Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer (autobiographical novel) 1936

Czeslaw Milosz
Wiersze (poetry) 1940

Yukio Mishima
Shiosai [The Sound of Waves] (novel) 1954

Abdelrahman Munif
Sharq al Mutawassit (novel) 1983

Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita (novel) 1955

Dazai Osamu
Shinshaku shokubu banashi [New Tales from the Provinces] (short stories) 1944

Boris Pasternak
Il Dottor Zivago [Doctor Zhivago] (novel) 1957

Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen nichts Neues [All Quiet on the Western Front] (novel) 1928

Richard Rive
Emergency (novel) 1970

Jaroslav Seifert
Morovy Sloup [The Plague Column] (poem) 1977

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich] (novel) 1962
Dlya polzy'dela [For the Good of the Cause] (novel) 1963
Rakovyl korpus [The Cancer Ward] (novel) 1968
Arkhipelag Gulag, 1918-1956: Op 'bit khudozhestvennopo issledovaniia [The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation] (essays) 1973

John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (novel) 1939

Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Petals of Blood (novel) 1977

Christa Wolf
Nachdenken über Christa T. [The Quest for Christa T.] (novel) 1968

Ota Yoko
Shikabane no Madii [City of Corpses] (novel) 1948

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