Jan Farfal

This project investigates the role of émigré intellectuals from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and the ways in which they addressed their home societies behind the Iron Curtain. By analyzing the rationale of Kultura, Svědectví, and Naša reč, Jan Farfal aims to revisit and reshape commonly held assumptions about the intellectual climate related to the "Iron Curtain," where he argues that exiled communities had a much bigger influence than could be judged from their limited scale and physical remoteness.