Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City

Envisioning Prague As A Multilayered Text, Or Palimpsest, That Has Been Constantly Revised And Rewritten, Alfred Thomas Argues That It Has Become A Paradoxical Site Of Inscription And Effacement, Of Memory And Forgetting, A Utopian Link To The Pre-war And Pre-holocaust European Past And A Dystopia Of Totalitarian Amnesia. Women On The Verge Of History: Libuše And The Foundational Legend Of Prague -- Deviant Monsters And Wayward Women: The Prague Ghetto And The Legend Of The Golem -- The Castle Hill Was Hidden: Franz Kafka And Czech Literature -- A Stranger In Prague: Writing And The Politics Of Identity In Apollinaire, Nezval, And Camus -- Sailing To Bohemia: Utopia, Memory, And The Holocaust In Postwar Austrian And German Literature -- Epilogue: Postmodern Prague? Alfred Thomas. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.