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Banned and restricted books in Czechoslovakia
23 titles have been banned or restricted in Czechoslovakia, recorded across 23 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
23
Ban events
23
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
6
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | 1984 | 1 |
| The Garden Party | Václav Havel | 1963 | 1 |
| The Power of the Powerless | Václav Havel | 1978 | 1 |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera | 1979 | 1 |
| I Served the King of England | Bohumil Hrabal | 1971 | 1 |
| The Guinea Pigs | Ludvík Vaculík | 1970 | 1 |
| The Joke | Milan Kundera | 1967 | 1 |
| Too Loud a Solitude | Bohumil Hrabal | 1976 | 1 |
| The Memorandum | Václav Havel | 1966 | 1 |
| The Captive Mind | Czesław Miłosz | 1953 | 1 |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 | 1 |
| The Painted Bird | Jerzy Kosiński | 1965 | 1 |
| The White Disease | Karel Čapek | 1937 | 1 |
| The Cowards | Josef Škvorecký | 1958 | 1 |
| Buds | Bohumil Hrabal | 1970 | 1 |
| Homework | Bohumil Hrabal | 1970 | 1 |
| The Axe | Ludvík Vaculík | 1966 | 1 |
| Life Is Elsewhere | Milan Kundera | 1973 | 1 |
| The Farewell Party | Milan Kundera | 1972 | 1 |
| Judge on Trial | Ivan Klíma | 1978 | 1 |
| Love and Garbage | Ivan Klíma | 1986 | 1 |
| The Plague Column | Jaroslav Seifert | 1973 | 1 |
| The Hangwoman | Pavel Kohout | 1978 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 23
- Sexual content
- 1
- Immorality
- 1
By decade
1930s1
1940s1
1950s2
1960s9
1970s9
1980s1
Documented bans
All 23 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being1984
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting1979
The Power of the Powerless1978
Too Loud a Solitude1976
The Plague Column1973
I Served the King of England1971
The Guinea Pigs1970
Buds1970
Homework1970
The Hangwoman1970
The Axe1969
Life Is Elsewhere1969
The Farewell Party1969
Judge on Trial1969
Love and Garbage1969
The Garden Party1968
The Joke1968
The Memorandum1968
The Painted Bird1965
The Cowards1958
The Captive Mind1953
The Trial1948
The White Disease1937
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.