Prague, capital of the twentieth century
| Titel: | Prague, capital of the twentieth century : a surrealist history / Derek Sayer |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
| Umfang: | xxi, 595 pages |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780691043807 |
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- List of Illustrations
- p. xi
- Acknowledgments
- p. xv
- Translation and Pronunciation
- p. xix
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1
- The Starry Castle Opens
- p. 13
- The Surrealist Situation of the Object
- p. 13
- A Choice of Abdications
- p. 22
- 2
- Zone
- p. 33
- Le passant de Prague
- p. 33
- This Little Mother Has Claws
- p. 44
- The Time of Ardent Reason
- p. 52
- The Hangman and the Poet
- p. 63
- Tongues Come to Life
- p. 69
- 3
- Metamorphoses
- p. 79
- The Origin of Robots
- p. 79
- A Beautiful Garden Next Door to History
- p. 90
- Suicide Lane
- p. 99
- Franz Kafka's Dream
- p. 114
- Do You Speak German? Are You a Jew?
- p. 122
- Fantasy Land. Entry I Crown
- p. 130
- The Precious Legacy
- p. 137
- 4
- Modernism in the Plural
- p. 144
- Alfons Mucha, Steel and Concrete
- p. 144
- The Ghosts of Futures Past
- p. 156
- From the Window of the Grand Café Orient
- p. 170
- Granny's Valley
- p. 183
- The Electric Century
- p. 197
- All the Beauties of the World
- p. 210
- 5
- Body Politic
- p. 221
- The Silent Woman
- p. 221
- The Poetry of Future Memories
- p. 231
- Renaissance Ballet
- p. 242
- Beautiful Ideas That Kill
- p. 251
- Sexual Nocturne
- p. 261
- Cut with a Kitchen Knife
- p. 270
- A War Economy, Words of Command, and Gas
- p. 280
- 6
- On the Edge of an Abyss
- p. 288
- The Beautiful Gardener
- p. 288
- The Bride Stripped Bare
- p. 298
- Gulping for Air and Violence
- p. 304
- Orders of Things
- p. 312
- L'origine du monde
- p. 324
- Dreams of Venus
- p. 331
- A Girl with a Baton
- p. 344
- 7
- Love's Boat Shattered against Everyday Life
- p. 356
- A National Tragedy with Pretty Legs
- p. 356
- The Poet Assassinated
- p. 364
- A Wall as Thick as Eternity
- p. 374
- Didier Desroches
- p. 387
- Am I Not Right, Jan Hus?
- p. 399
- Messalina's Shoulder in the Gaslight
- p. 409
- That Familiar White Darkness
- p. 419
- 8
- The Gold of Time
- p. 426
- The Necromancer's Junk Room
- p. 426
- The Prague-Paris Telephone
- p. 433
- The Dancing House
- p. 439
- Notes
- p. 445
- Bibliography
- p. 529
- Index
- p. 561
