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The mystifications of a nation, "the potato bug" and other essays on Czech culture, Vladimír Macura ; translated and edited by Hana Píchová and Craig Cravens

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The mystifications of a nation, "the potato bug" and other essays on Czech culture, Vladimír Macura ; translated and edited by Hana Píchová and Craig Cravens

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130) and index

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essays

Main title

The mystifications of a nation

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580120162

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Vladimír Macura ; translated and edited by Hana Píchová and Craig Cravens

Sub title

"the potato bug" and other essays on Czech culture

Table Of Contents

Semio-feuilletons on the end of empires : the cult of the center and the comedy of the bridge / Caryl Emerson -- Translators' preface / Hana Píchová and Craig Cravens -- Introduction : the Czech world of Vladimír Macura / Peter Bugge -- Where is my home? -- Mystification and the nation -- Dream of Europe -- The center -- Prague -- The bridge -- The potato bug -- Death of a leader -- Symbol with a human face -- The metro -- Michurin -- Spartakiad -- Renaming -- Minus-Stalin -- The Celts within us

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