Displaced Tyrannies: Allegories of Repression in East Central European Literature

A lecture by Jonathan Bolton. Professor Bolton is one of the leading scholars in modern Central European literature and history. Author of a prize-winning book on Czech Dissent under Communism, his recent work investigates the relationship between literature and political power in the Warsaw Pact countries and beyond. His lecture will explore the allegorical and Aesopian literacy modes exploited by a range of writers in their engagement with tyrannical regimes.