Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City

Read * Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City by Alfred Thomas ¿ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City A Beautiful, Sensitive Treatment of Pragues Literary Uses according to Richard Demma. A hauntingly beautiful, sensitive treatment of Pragues literary tradition and the uses authors - both Czech and foreign - have made of the City as a palimpsest of changing images through which they can exorcise their own personal demons and the traumas of the past century. This is especially so of German authors dealing with the traumatic guilt of the holocaust. I also found the book quite sad, as it reco

Author	:	Alfred Thomas
Rating	:	4.80 (604 Votes)
Asin	:	0226795403
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	200 Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-12-22
Language	:	English

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"A Beautiful, Sensitive Treatment of Prague's Literary Uses" according to Richard Demma. A hauntingly beautiful, sensitive treatment of Prague's literary tradition and the uses authors - both Czech and foreign - have made of the City as a 'palimpsest' of changing images through which they can exorcise their own personal demons and the traumas of the past century. This is especially so of German authors dealing with the traumatic guilt of the holocaust. I also found the book quite sad, as it recounts such immense suffering witnessed and experienced by the city and its inhab

Each supplies a rich store of examples, and shows a different Prague: nationalist capital, Gothic Praga magica, or city of surrealist flânerie.”. G. “Prague Palimpsest explores the complex interplay between history and imagination in representations of what the poet Vitzslav Nezval called the ‘city-book.’ The five main chapters supply fresh discussion of particular traditions: myths of the city’s origin; the Golem and Prague’s Jewish heritage; Kafka and his legacy; the relationship between Prague and Paris in the i

Sebald. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten—from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city’s foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation as the new capital of the avant-garde—Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has become a paradoxical site of inscription and effacement, of memory and forgetting, a utopian link to the prewar and pre-Holocaust European past and a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia.Considering a wide range of writers, including the city’s most famous son, Franz Kafka, Prague Palimpsest reassesses the work of poets and novelists such as Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Ku