Meanwhile, cultural weeklies such as Literarni Novinv, Kultúrny život,, and Kulturni Tvorba saw greatly expanded readership.Albright, Madeleine Korbel. The Role of the Press in Political Change: Czechoslovakia 1968. Ph.D diss., Columbia University, 1976. Like many of the Slovak culture institutions, these publications were, however, engaged in a mostly indirect confrontation with the center, such as obvious ironic overstating of the party line. Political conflicts were commonly negotiated. This was complicated by exceptions, such as Kultúrny život, the weekly newspaper of the Union of Slovak Writers, which authorities considered politically unreliable. Such direct confrontations were spreading. In 1967, Vaclav Havel's play, The Memorandum, Milan Kundera's novel, The Joke (novel), were seen by many writers as the beginnings of open rebellion.
Meanwhile, cultural weeklies such as Literarni Novinv, Kultúrny život,, and Kulturni Tvorba saw greatly expanded readership.Albright, Madeleine Korbel. The Role of the Press in Political Change: Czechoslovakia 1968. Ph.D diss., Columbia University, 1976. Like many of the Slovak cu:lture institutions, these publications were, however, engaged in a mostly indirect confrontation with the cent:er, such as obvious ironic overstating of the party line. Political co:nflicts were commonly negotiated. This was complicated by exceptions, such as Kultúrny život, the week!ly newspaper of the Union of Slovak Writers, which authorities considered politically unreliable. Such direct confrontations were spreading. In 1967, Vaclav Havel's play, The Memorandum, Milan Kundera's novel, The Joke (novel), were seen by many writers as the beginnings of open rebellion.