The Case of the Missing Statue A Historical and Literary Study of the Stalin Monument in Prague

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Není skladem
Cena s DPH
407 Kč
Cena bez DPH
407 Kč

This is a fascinating story of the cultural history of the Stalin monument told through archival and historical documents, interviews with those involved, literary treatments of the monument, and visual representations.

What lessons does the case of Stalin in Prague tell us about cultural memory and forgetting? What does it tell us about the absurdities of totalitarian (and perhaps not only totalitarian) rule? The history of the construction and destruction of the Stalin monument – and the ways in which the monument has resonated in Czech literary culture – reads more like an absurdist tragic-comic novel than “real” history. As I read the book, I understood that history has much more in common with literary narrative than we would like to admit; it is a space for the construction (and sometimes also the demolition) of identities, both personal and national." David S. Danaher, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

The book includes a unique collection of photographs that have not been published before, taken during the demolition of the monument in the early 1960s.

Ean
9788074670671
Publikováno v roce
2014
ISBN
978-80-7467-067-1
Vazba
V8
Jazyk
angličtina
Formát
215 x 265mm
Autor
Hana Píchová
Grafický design
Marek Jodas
Počet stran
160
Vydavatel
Arbor vitae
Překladatel
Počet ilustrací
89
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