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had to look up bowdlerized... > Expurgation. An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization or fig-leaf edition, is a form of censorship that involve
by m463 2y ago
had to look up bowdlerized...
> Expurgation. An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization or fig-leaf edition, is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media
It wasn't clear if original version existed? I think of the bukowski mess
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/bukowksis-poems-were-mangled-by-editors-after-his-death-now-you-can-read-his-originals https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/bukowksis-poems-wer...
- pvg 2y agoIn this case, the much overused 'censored' is really more accurate but like with most such works, unmangled versions were published in 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union. There's a tangential mention on the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Platonov#Official_support_and_censure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Platonov#Official_suppo...