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Edgar E. Clark Collection: the publication of Milovan Djilas’s writings
How the books got out. Katharine J. Clark was an American journalist covering the Tito-Djilas split, and she smuggled some of Djilas’s manuscripts out of Yugoslavia; she and her husband Edgar, a war correspondent turned foreign reporter, then helped get them published. Georgetown holds their papers on that work: correspondence from 1956 to 1968 about Djilas’s writings and the effort to publish them, an extensive series of reports by both Clarks on Djilas, and a few manuscripts. Most of it concerns The New Class. Four boxes, one linear foot, identifier GTM-790910. The Hoover papers are what Djilas wrote; this is the record of how it escaped the country that had banned it, which is the part the Archive is actually about.
- Period
- 1950-1976
- Region
- United States
- Language
- English
- Rights
- In copyright — do not store. A mixed archival collection of correspondence, reports and manuscripts by several hands, in copyright and not datable to a single term: Katharine Clark died in 1986, Edgar Clark in 1993, and the Djilas material among their papers runs on his own clock. No text is held here. WHO HOLDS THE RIGHTS IS AN OPEN QUESTION, and this record does not pretend otherwise. The finding aid’s terms of access say only "For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives," and Hoover’s copyright policy pushes it straight back: researchers are "responsible for compliance with copyright law," including "identifying the copyright owner," and staff help only where Hoover or Stanford itself holds the copyright. No public record found names an estate, an executor or an agent for Djilas. His son Aleksa Djilas appears in the 1984-1989 publishing correspondence in this collection, which is evidence of involvement and NOT evidence that he holds the rights; the distinction is left standing here rather than closed by a guess.
- Source
- https://findingaids.library.georgetown.edu/repositories/15/resources/10530
This record is catalogued here; the text is held at the original source.
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