Abstract
Writing about ‘The Literary Underground in Czechoslovakia’ in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung (1-2 February 1975) the exiled Czech writer Ota Filip pointed out that the well-known authors such as Ludvik Vaculik, Pavel Kohout, Ivan Klima, VSclav Havel, Bohumil Hrabal and Alexander Kliment, whose names were linked with the Dubĉek liberalisation era and who fell into official disfavour as a result, are only ‘the tip of the iceberg’. Below we reproduce an abbreviated version of Filip's article, in which he shows how grievously Czech literature has suffered at the hands of Communist censorship over the past 27 years.