ABSTRACT
After the discussion in Chapter 3 on general insights into various aspects around the print permit fi les, this chapter aims at providing a more detailed analysis of specifi c fi les and of how particular genres were dealt with in the fi les. The objective is fi rst and foremost to demonstrate how an argument was built up throughout a single fi le and how publisher and assessor co-operated, in order to construct a solid justifi cation that would stand the scrutiny of the censor. What becomes evident is the persistence of publishers and assessors in using Socialist Realist motifs and Marxist-Leninist concepts necessary to hammer home their message to the censor. Again, it becomes apparent that in the description and criticism of books, no difference was made between texts for children and young adults. This approach also suggests that the same treatment was given to children’s books and books for adults, a fact corroborated by descriptions, comparisons and examples in the children’s book assessments that do not particularly relate to children’s literary matters but rather to those of general literary theory. In the foreground was the application of Socialist Realist concepts and motifs to the texts and this was in no way different for books for adults. Print permit applications by publishers of adult literature show the same kind of motifs and paradigms and a similar line of argumentation.
