Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City
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[nice clean as-new book, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. "A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism...
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[nice clean as-new book, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. "A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten, [the author] 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. [The book] is a comparative, interdisciplnary sutdy that helps to explain why Prague -- more than any other major European city -- has haunted the cultural and political imagination of the West."
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Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Year: 2010
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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