Knihovraždy: Případ školních čítanek : k nedožitým 100. narozeninám profesora Zdeňka Kožmína

The conditions in post-war Czech culture were directly dependent on the current political situation in the country. In the periods of political upheaval, i.e. after the February coup as well as with the onset of normalisation in the early 1970s, many writers, poets and literary scholars were blacklisted, and certain topics were also judged undesirable. This had a direct impact on publishing practice and the book market: tens to hundreds of titles had to be dropped from publishers' editorial plans and entire runs of finished books were destroyed instead of sent to readers. This practice also affected the fate of two reading books that Zdeněk Kožmín, a teacher at the University of Brno, participated in preparing: the reading book for the seventh year of primary school, on which he collaborated with Helena Poláková, and the reading book for the final year of secondary school, which he compiled with Milan Suchomel. This study examines the fate of these "book murders" and comments on their conception, as well as Kožmín's approach to working with literary texts in school teaching.