Antonín Zita, How We Understand the Beats: The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands

Antonín Zita, How We Understand the Beats: The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2018. Pp. 200. ISBN 978-80-210-9048-4. Erik Mortenson The label “Beat” means many different things to many different people. So how do you make sense of a group of writers who exist as both a global social phenomenon and a multi-generational literary movement? Antonín Zita attempts to answer this question by placing the Beats’ postwar reception...