Envisioning Prague as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised & rewritten, Alfred Thomas argues that it has become a paradoxical site of inscription & effacement, of memory & forgetting, a utopian link to the pre-war &...
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Envisioning Prague as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised & rewritten, Alfred Thomas argues that it has become a paradoxical site of inscription & effacement, of memory & forgetting, a utopian link to the pre-war & pre-Holocaust European past & a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia
Women on the verge of history: Libuše and the foundational legend of Prague -- Deviant monsters and wayward women: the Prague ghetto and the legend of the golem -- The castle hill was hidden: Franz Kafka and Czech literature -- A stranger in Prague: writing and the politics of identity in Apollinaire, Nezval, and Camus -- Sailing to Bohemia: utopia, memory, and the Holocaust in postwar Austrian and German literature -- Epilogue: Postmodern Prague?
Envisioning Prague as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised & rewritten, Alfred Thomas argues that it has become a paradoxical site of inscription & effacement, of memory & forgetting, a utopian link to the pre-war & pre-Holocaust European past & a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia