Allen Ginsberg and other immoral menaces

Fifty years ago, on 1 May 1965, annual student festivities in Prague to
mark the joys of spring culminated in the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg
being declared “Král majálesu” – the King of May. A week later,
Ginsberg’s visit to Czechoslovakia was cut short when the authorities
labelled him an “immoral menace” and put him on a plane to London. But
the Czech affection for the writings of the Beat Generation remains to this
day. David Vaughan looks at some of the American writers that have captured
the Czech imagination in the decades since World War II.