Prague, capital of the twentieth century [electronic resource] : a surrealist history / Derek Sayer.
2014
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Title
Prague, capital of the twentieth century [electronic resource] : a surrealist history / Derek Sayer.
Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2013
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 595 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-559) and index.
Contents
The starry castle opens
The surrealist situation of the object
A choice of abdictations
Zone
Le passant de Prague
This little mother has claws
The time of ardent reason
The hangman and the poet
Tongues come to life
Metamorphoses
The origin of robots
A beautiful garden next door to history
Suicide lane
Franz Kafka's dream
Do you speak German? Are you a Jew?
Fantasy Land. Entry 1 crown
The precious legacy
Modernism in the plural
Alfons Mucha, steel and concrete
The ghosts of futures past
From the window of the Grand Café Orient
Granny's valley
The electric century
All the beauties of the world
Body politic
The silent woman
The poetry of future memories
Renaissance ballet
Beautiful ideas that kill
Sexual nocturne
Cut with a kitchen knife
A war economy, words of command, and gas
On the edge of an abyss
The beautiful gardener
The bride stripped bare
Gulping for air and violence
Orders of things
L'origine du monde
Dreams of Venus
A girl with a baton
Love's boat shattered against everyday life
A national tragedy with pretty legs
A poet assassinated
A wall as thick as eternity
Didier desroches
Am I not right, Jan Hus?
Messalina's shoulder in the gaslight
That familiar white darkness
The gold of time
The necromancer's junk room
The Prague-Paris telephone
The dancing house.
The surrealist situation of the object
A choice of abdictations
Zone
Le passant de Prague
This little mother has claws
The time of ardent reason
The hangman and the poet
Tongues come to life
Metamorphoses
The origin of robots
A beautiful garden next door to history
Suicide lane
Franz Kafka's dream
Do you speak German? Are you a Jew?
Fantasy Land. Entry 1 crown
The precious legacy
Modernism in the plural
Alfons Mucha, steel and concrete
The ghosts of futures past
From the window of the Grand Café Orient
Granny's valley
The electric century
All the beauties of the world
Body politic
The silent woman
The poetry of future memories
Renaissance ballet
Beautiful ideas that kill
Sexual nocturne
Cut with a kitchen knife
A war economy, words of command, and gas
On the edge of an abyss
The beautiful gardener
The bride stripped bare
Gulping for air and violence
Orders of things
L'origine du monde
Dreams of Venus
A girl with a baton
Love's boat shattered against everyday life
A national tragedy with pretty legs
A poet assassinated
A wall as thick as eternity
Didier desroches
Am I not right, Jan Hus?
Messalina's shoulder in the gaslight
That familiar white darkness
The gold of time
The necromancer's junk room
The Prague-Paris telephone
The dancing house.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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