The Afterlife of Repressions as a New Founding Act of Czech Catholicism, or: The Birth of an Archetype "Writer-Martyr". Central European Cultures in the Struggle against Communist Totalitarianism

Abstract

The persecutions of Catholic writers, organized by the Czechoslovac Communist regime, caused a secondary effect: An archetype of "Writer-Martyr" came into being in the self-reflection of Czech Catholic Milieu. This archetype appears both in the literary production of writers of next Catholic generations (Diviš, Jirous, Křepelka) and in the Catholic literary history and criticism.

Keywords

• Czech literatur
• Catholicism
• Totalitarianism