Abstract
Publication history of the book Ceylon: The Paradise without Angels by Miroslav Zikmund and Jiří Hanzelka represented the breakthrough point of both travellers' career. The study demonstrates numerous procedures of dispersed regulations of literary communication at various institutional levels at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.
It follows both, direct and indirect methods and strategies of executing power interventions, including the ways they were transferred into multiple discursive positions, such as the bureaucratic-legal language of correspondence between the publishers and their authors, or media representations of their case. The Hanzelka and Zikmund (H & Z) story deserves heuristic attention as - among other things - it represents an eloquent example of the gradual and largely successful expulsion of hundreds of personalities and their works from the public sphere, and consequently from the cultural canon and collective memory.