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glebThis site mention a few occurences of actual book burning :
Ulysses, by James Joyce - Burned in the U.S. (1918), Ireland (1922), Canada (1922), England (1923) and banned in England (1929).
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut - Challenged in many communities, but burned in Drake, ND (1973).
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien - Burned in Alamagordo, NM (2001) outside Christ Community Church along with other Tolkien novels as satanic.
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck - Burned by the East St. Louis, IL Public Library (1939) and barred from the Buffalo, NY Public Library (1939) on the grounds that "vulgar words" were used.
Ulysses, by James Joyce - Burned in the U.S. (1918), Ireland (1922), Canada (1922), England (1923) and banned in England (1929).
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut - Challenged in many communities, but burned in Drake, ND (1973).
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien - Burned in Alamagordo, NM (2001) outside Christ Community Church along with other Tolkien novels as satanic.
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck - Burned by the East St. Louis, IL Public Library (1939) and barred from the Buffalo, NY Public Library (1939) on the grounds that "vulgar words" were used.
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Date: 2014-04-16 04:55 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, this publication encountered censorship problems in the United States; serialisation was halted in 1920 when the editors were convicted of publishing obscenity. Although the conviction was based on the “Nausicaä” episode of Ulysses, The Little Review had fuelled the fires of controversy with dada poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s defence of Ulysses in an essay “The Modest Woman” Joyce's novel was not published in the United States until 1933.
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Хотя, следует сказать, в Англии сжигали не фанатики перед церковью, а таможня, как контрабандный товар: "The following year, John Rodker produced a print run of 500 more intended to replace the missing copies, but these were burned by English customs at Folkestone." (там же).
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Date: 2014-04-16 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-18 07:20 pm (UTC)http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/reviews/literature_and_poetry/article1385851.ece
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Date: 2014-04-19 02:51 am (UTC)