Prague: A Cultural and Literary HistorySignal Books, 2003 - 242 páginas A treasure house of Gothic, baroque and modernist architecture, Prague is also a city of icons and symbols: statues, saints and signs reveal a turbulent history of religious and cultural conflict. As Kafka's nightmare city and home of the Good Soldier Svejk, the Czech capital also produced two of the twentieth century's emblematic writers. Richard Burton explores this metropolis of theatrical allusion, in which politics and drama have always been intertwined. His interpretation of the city's cultural past and present encompasses opera and rock music, puppetry and cinema, surrealism and socialist realism. |
Contenido
How to Read Prague | 10 |
Tragedy and Triumph | 11 |
A Tradition of Defenestration | 17 |
GoltzKinský Palace | 21 |
Charles Bridge | 24 |
Ambiguous Icon | 28 |
Subversive Statues | 32 |
Nationhood and Diversity | 35 |
From Dvořák to Rock | 121 |
Music and Resistance | 123 |
Kings of Swing | 129 |
Pragues Rockers | 131 |
Prague Modern 19001948 | 136 |
Art Nouveau | 138 |
Architectural Modernism and Cubism | 142 |
Veletržni Palác | 146 |
Splendors and Miseries | 40 |
Prague Castle | 45 |
Imprisonment and Liberation | 47 |
Inside the Labyrinth | 49 |
Chessboard City | 52 |
Ghetto Golem and Germans | 55 |
Synagogues and Cemetery | 56 |
Germanization and AntiSemitism | 59 |
The Golem | 62 |
Prague Germans | 69 |
Zionism and Migration | 72 |
Holocaust and Music | 73 |
Josef K and Josef Švejk Trials and Triumphs | 80 |
Vyšehrad Cemetery | 82 |
Kafka and Hašek | 84 |
Kafkas Prague | 85 |
Dear Parents Dearest Father | 89 |
The Castle | 90 |
Stupidity and Survival | 92 |
K and Švejk under Communism | 95 |
Theater Music Nation | 100 |
The Estates Theater | 101 |
Dalibor and the Shrine of Nationhood | 103 |
These Hallowed Walls | 106 |
The Bartered Bride | 108 |
Theater Capital of Europe | 110 |
Puppets | 116 |
Black Light Theater | 119 |
Foreign Influences | 148 |
Poetry of the Present | 151 |
A Truly Modern Man | 155 |
Phantom World | 157 |
Socialist Art | 160 |
In Durance Prague Under Communism 19481989 | 163 |
Site of Martyrdom | 166 |
Victorious February | 167 |
Compulsory Jubilation | 170 |
Prose Poetry and Censorship | 172 |
Cinematic Revolution | 177 |
Prague Spring and the Intellectuals | 182 |
Soviet Intervention | 186 |
Prague Normalized | 189 |
Samizdat and Opposition | 192 |
Charter 77 | 194 |
Martyrs and Puppets | 197 |
Images of Calvary | 200 |
Automata and Survivors | 202 |
From Velvet to Velcro 1989 and Since | 208 |
Theater in Action | 209 |
PostVelvet Prague | 213 |
Changing Faces | 218 |
The Underside | 221 |
City of Tears | 224 |
Further Reading | 232 |
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