RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Šolić, Mirna
T1 Narrating and Negotiating the Repressed City: Representations of Prague in Jiří Weil's Work
JF Bohemica Olomucensia
YR 2015
VO 7
IS 1
SP 66
OP 88
DO 10.5507/bo.2015.005
UL https://bohemica.upol.cz/artkey/boh-201501-0005.php
AB By playing with the conventions of representations of urban space of Prague, Jiří Weil's novels Life with a Star and Mendelssohn is on the Roof represent a specific, yet insufficiently explored, contribution to the scholarship mapping Prague texts in literature. Their main feature is the extent to which Prague as a city is constructed as an easily recognizable, and perhaps expected, topos, with all of its cultural and historical significance for the establishment of the national and cultural identity.