Czech Time. A big story of a small country: from St. Wenceslas to Vaclav Havel
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Czech Time. A big story of a small country: from St. Wenceslas to Vaclav Havel
24.99 €
The new book by renowned writer Andrej Šároho, author of intellectual bestsellers about Central and Southeastern Europe, is dedicated to the country in which he has been living for a quarter of a century. The Czech Republic is located in the center of the Old World, on the border of the Slavic and Germanic worlds, and this has largely determined its turbulent and rich history. Readers will learn how the Czech Republic was formed, how it is organized, and how Czech time moves forward year after year, decade after decade, century after century. This is a fascinating journey through time and space: through key episodes of Czech history, along the perimeter of Czech borders, through the pages of major Czech books and through the biographies of famous Czechs. The homeland of Václav Havel and Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Gott and Jan Hus, Jaromír Jagr and Karel Čapek seems to be a familiar country to many people, but at the same time it often remains completely unknown to them. At the same time, "Czech Time" is a private story of the author, a story about the search for orientation in a foreign environment, a personal experience of entering an unfamiliar society. It is an attempt to understand where Czech freedom-loving and adherence to the ideals of civil society originate from, an attempt to find answers to questions about how Czech traditions of informal culture, uncensored art, a special sense of humor were formed in the Czech Republic, why Czech-Russian ties were so uneasy, how stereotypes emerged and collapsed in the relations between the two peoples. The book is illustrated with works by Prague-based photographer Olga Bazhenova.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Historical interest