Brian K Goodman
@briankgoodman.bsky.social
Teaching lit at ASU, just wrote this: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983373
I write a lot about what Balint calls the "curatorial Roth and his public literary citizenship" in my book:
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Nonconformists — Harvard University Press
How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent.“In some indescribable way, we are each ...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I write a lot about what Balint calls the "curatorial Roth and his public literary citizenship" in my book:
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Ditto! The dissident intellectual milieu I study was definitely attracted to the failed attempts at "socialism with a human face," but now I'm curious about the extent to which these nineteenth-century antecedents were on their mind (well, aside from Marx, obviously).
September 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ditto! The dissident intellectual milieu I study was definitely attracted to the failed attempts at "socialism with a human face," but now I'm curious about the extent to which these nineteenth-century antecedents were on their mind (well, aside from Marx, obviously).
Also, since I'm writing about Gyorgy Konrad right now, I guess I'll have to check out Citizen Marx on antipolitics (which I usually associate with 19th-c anarchists like Bakunin rather than the Owenites, etc.)
September 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Also, since I'm writing about Gyorgy Konrad right now, I guess I'll have to check out Citizen Marx on antipolitics (which I usually associate with 19th-c anarchists like Bakunin rather than the Owenites, etc.)
(And it’s still funded for next summer!)
August 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
(And it’s still funded for next summer!)
(From today’s coincidental reading…)
August 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
(From today’s coincidental reading…)