Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City,Used

Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City,Used

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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 rewrittenfrom the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the citys foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation as the new capital of the avantgardeAlfred Thomas argues that Prague has become a paradoxical site of inscription and effacement, of memory and forgetting, a utopian link to the prewar and preHolocaust European past and a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia.Considering a wide range of writers, including the citys most famous son, Franz Kafka, Prague Palimpsest reassesses the work of poets and novelists such as Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Neruda, Vtezslav Nezval, and Rainer Maria Rilke and engages with other famous authors who wrote Prague, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Ingeborg Bachmann, Albert Camus, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald. The result is a comparative, interdisciplinary study that helps to explain why Praguemore than any other major European cityhas haunted the cultural and political imagination of the West.

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