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Prague pictures : portraits of a city
- Title
- Prague pictures : portraits of a city / John Banville.
- Author
- Banville, John
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- 244 pages : maps; 21 cm
- Summary
- "From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries. Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art", who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradcany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolutions, floods, the imposition of Soviet communism, and even the depredations of the tourist boom after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 could not destroy the unique atmosphere of this beautiful, proud, and melancholy city on the Vltava. John Banville traces Prague's often tragic history and portrays the people who made it: the emperors and princes, geniuses and charlatans, heroes and scoundrels. He also paints a portrait of the Prague of today, reveling in its newfound freedoms, eager to join the European Community and at the same time suspicious of what many Praguers see as yet another totalitarian takeover. He writes of his first visit to the city, in the depths of the Cold War, and of subsequent trips there, of the people he met, the friends he made, the places he came to know"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- The writer in the city series
- Uniform Title
- Writer and the city.
- Subject
- Call Number
- JFC 16-166
- ISBN
- 9781632863744
- 163286374X
- OCLC
- 900594710
- Author
- Banville, John, author.
- Title
- Prague pictures : portraits of a city / John Banville.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Edition
- This edition published 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The writer in the city seriesWriter and the city.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 16-166