| Number of records: | 10,000+ |
| Number of titles: | approx. 40 magazines, 1400+ books List of processed journals (xlsx) |
| Scope: | Czech and world literature (including fiction) |
| Materials: | Czech and world literature |
| Time frame: | 1948–1989 |
| Languages: | Czech, Slovak |
| How to cite the Czech Literature of Exile Bibliography: | Czech Literature of Exile Bibliography (1948–1989). Czech Literary Bibliography [online database]. Prague: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. Available at: https://exil.ucl.cas.cz/ |
| Access to database (Aleph): | http://aleph.ucl.cas.cz/exil |
| Dataset To Download: | https://clb.ucl.cas.cz/en/datasets-to-download/ |
| License: | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International |
The Czech Literature of Exile Database contains records of approx. 1400 books released by Czech publishers in exile between 1948 and 1989. In addition, there are entries for approx. 7500 articles on literary themes that appeared in Czech exile magazines during this period. Exile magazines published after 1989 are listed in the current bibliography database. The database draws on František Knopp’s Česká literatura v exilu 1948–1989 (Czech Literature of Exile, Prague: Makropulos, 1996), which has been converted in its entirety from the ISIS format to the existing database.
A new focused selection of excerpts for the exile database was launched in March 2023 in connection with the project Czech Literary Exile 1948–1989, financed by the NAKI III programme of the Czech Ministry of Culture. The scope has thus been expanded beyond Knopp’s original selection to include fiction and foreign literature, with the goal of including other exile periodicals that did not fit into the original selection. Journals are systematically processed in chronological order, according to the time of their publication, and records from the original database are re-processed according to the current MARC21 format excerptation rules.
The Czech literary exile database is processed according to general standards of the CLB. The only feature that is specific to the way exile periodicals are registered is information regarding the place of publication, which directly follows its title and designation within the CLE database.
