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A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. This interdisciplinary study 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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"A dazzling achievement, presenting a multifaceted, intellectually complex image of the fabled city at the crossroads of central Europe. Alfred Thomas reads Prague as the home of a multilingual culture inscribed with the recurrent pattern of forgetting and recovery, like a parchment on which the original writing remains visible under the erasures and revisions." - Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Smith College"

Prague Palimpsest Writing Memory and the City

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2010
      ISBN13: 9780226795409, 978-0226795409
      ISBN10: 0226795403
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. This interdisciplinary study helps to explain why Prague - more than any other major European city - has haunted the cultural and political imagination of the West.

      Trade Review
      "A dazzling achievement, presenting a multifaceted, intellectually complex image of the fabled city at the crossroads of central Europe. Alfred Thomas reads Prague as the home of a multilingual culture inscribed with the recurrent pattern of forgetting and recovery, like a parchment on which the original writing remains visible under the erasures and revisions." - Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Smith College"

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