Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City

by Alfred Thomas

Book Overview

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--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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226795403
• ISBN13: 9780226795409
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"