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Ludvík Vaculík
Ludvík Vaculík (1926–2015) was a leading figure of Czech dissident literature of the 1970s and 80s. He began his writing career as a journalist and a member of the Communist party, of which he grew disillusioned. Banned from writing, Vaculík turned to writing samizdat and publishing the work of other banned writers.


It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer’s Block

Diary Entries from Communist Czechoslovakia
January 29, 2020  By Ludvík Vaculík
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