Immediately after its publication (1937), the documentary novel Moscow-Borders encountered a double misunderstanding. Its style deliberately crossed the boundaries set for so-called serious literature by adopting elements of so-called marginal literature to a degree unusual at the time. This misunderstanding was, moreover, in line with the condemnations that stemmed from the political interests of the Communist Party. The most famous of these was a devastating condemnation of Weil called The Pavlace Novel, written on the direct instructions of Klement Gottwald by Weil's close friend Julius Fučík. Moscow-Border can be simplistically described as one of the earliest critiques of Stalinism. A planned second edition was banned in 1969 and the book was not reprinted until 1991.
Czech edition