The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945–1990

Index

425 inde x Abelard, Pierre, 356 Agrarian Union Party (Bulgaria), 77 Aiud prison camp, 263, 309–10 Albania, 4, 7, 10, 15–76 Albanian Union of Writers and Artists, 37, 412n4 Alexander I, King, 321 Alia, Ramiz, 47 Államvédelmi Hatóság (ÁVH, Hungarian Secret Police after 1956), 202–3 Anderman, Janusz, 243; Brak tchu (Breathless), 242; Kraj świata (The Edge of the World), 242 Anders, Władysław, 238 Andrić, Ivo, Prokljeta avlija (The Damned Yard), 13 Andrzejewski, Jerzy, Popiól i diament (Ashes and Diamonds), 239 Anticommunist Organization, 229 anti-Semitism, 259–60, 267 Antonescu, Ion, 260–61, 264, 267, 282, 420n30 Antonov-Ovseyenko, Vladimir, 282, 420n29 Arendt, Hannah, 5 Armia Krajowa (Home Army), 238, 239 Auschwitz, 203 Austria-Hungary, 77, 259, 324 L’Aveu (film), 91 ÁVO (Allamvédelmi Osztály; Hungarian Secret Police before 1956), 211–16 Bacu, Dumitru, 265; Acolo şezum şi plânsem (There We Sat Down and Wept), 265; The Anti-Humans, 8; Ardealul (Transylvania), 265; Cântiti tră niagăşiri (You Sing in order to Survive), 265; Piteşti, Centru de Reeducare Studentesca (Piteşti, Center for Student Reeducation), 265 Balkan Wars (1990s), 322, 422n17 Balla, Zsófia, 229 Baltić, Milutin, 399, 423n34 Balzac, Honoré de, 153 Bart, Jean (pseudonym of Eugeniu Botez), 281, 420n26 La battana (journal), 358 Beckett, Samuel, Catastrophe, 185 Bektashi, 17 Belák, Vojtech, 168–70; “Modlitba za čislo 64” (Prayer for Number 64), 168–70; “Modlitba za čislo 87” (Prayer for Number 87), 170; Zápočet z poníženia (Accreditation of Humiliation), 168 Belene prison camp, 79 Bellio (Belliou, Bellu), Georges de, 281, 420n27 Benda, Julien, 279, 420n22 426 | indEx Bender, Ostap, 312, 420n38 Beneš, Edvard, 89 Berisha, Sali, 70 Bessarabia, 259 Białołęka prison, 241, 242 Biblioteka Tygodnika Wojennego (Library of the Martial Law Weekly), 250 Bienek, Horst, Die Zelle, 10 Biermann, Wolf, 11 Bodnăraş, Emilia, 307, 420n37 Bodor, Ádám, 2, 229–35; Az érsek látogatása (The Archbishop’s Visit), 229; A börtön szaga (The Stench of Prison), 229–35; Sinistra körzet (The Sinistra District), 229 Boldur-Lăţescu, The Communist Genocide in Romania, 265 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Letters and Papers from Prison, 7 Bosnia-Herzegovina, 322 Bosnians, 322 Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, 285 Böszörmény, Géza, 204 Bota e re (journal), 412n4 Bota letrare (journal) 70 Brâncuşi, Constantin, 278, 419n21 Brodnaňský, Pavol, 171–72; Svedectvo (Testimony), 171; “Ťažký kríž” (The Heavy Cross), 171–72 Buczkówna, Mieczysława, 250 Bukovina, 259 Bukovskij, Vladimir, 13, 14 Bulgaria, 11–12, 15, 77–87 Bulqiza prison camp, 16–17 Burrel prison camp, 16–17, 18, 22–23 Buzalka, Michal, 161, 415n14 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, “Youth and Age,” 23, 412n6 Bytíz u Přibrami prison camp, 91 Calciu, Gherghe, 292 Calvarul Aiudului (The Calvary of Aiud), 263 Calvary of Aiud, Romania, 8 Camus, Albert, 205 Caraion, Ion (pseudonym of Stelian Diaconescu), 287–90; “am pe nimeni” (no one do I have), 290; Cimitrul din stele (The Graveyard in the Stars), 287–90; Cîntece negre (Black Songs), 287; “Decât mâine” (Instead of Tomorrow), 288–89; “Halucinaţie” [Hallucination], v; Insectele tovaraşului Hitler (Comrade Hitler’s Insects), 287; “La marea putredă” [At the Putrid Sea], v; “Litanie” (Litany), 288; “Neconoscutul ferestrelor” [The Mystery of Windows], v; Omul profilat pe cer (Man Outlined Against the Sky), 287; Panopticum (Panopticum), 287; “Pretutindeni, somnule” (Everywhere and Nowhere, Sleep), 289–90; “Suveranitate” (Sovereignty), 288 Carbonari society, 8 Carol II, King, 260, 264 Carp, Petrache, 278, 419n20 Castro, Fidel, 322 Catholicism, 17, 97, 105, 202, 240, 247–49. See also Greco-Catholic Church Ceauşescu, Nicolae, 1, 259, 261–62, 291, 420n37 Central Powers, 77 Cesereanu, Ruxandra: Călătorie spre infernul (Journey Through the Inferno), 8, 265; Panopticum (Panopticum), 8, 265 Chakurov, Delcho, 79 Charter 77 manifesto, 185 China. See People’s Republic of China Christianity, ix. See also Catholicism; Greco-Catholic Church; Orthodox Christianity; Orthodox Church Churchill, Winston, 14, 284 Codreanu, Corneliu Zelea, 5, 260, 264, 265, 420n36 collectivization, 202, 239, 262 Cominform. See Communist Information Bureau indEx | 427 Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Persecuted, 185 communism: in Albania, 16; in Bulgaria, 78; in Czechoslovakia, 89–90; in Hungary, 201–3; in Poland, 238–41; repression under, 1–2, 5–7, 10–12, 17, 18, 203; resistance to, 1; in Romania, 261–66; in Yugoslavia, 321–24, 326...