PT Journal AU Sidakova Fialova, A TI Imperial-royal Czech Prose 2021. Over the books by Pavla Horakova The Heart of Europe and Jaroslav Rudis Winterberg's Last Journey SO Bohemica Olomucensia PY 2023 BP 158 EP 168 VL 14 IS 3 DI 10.5507/bo.2022.039 DE contemporary prose; fact-based novel; Habsburg Monarchy; Vienna Czechs; 19th and 20th century history AB The study compares two novels: Rudis's Winterberg's Last Journey and Horakova's The Heart of Europe. Both novels have a similar theme, namely the history of the Habsburg Empire, and are set in two time periods, but the narrator's conception and narrative style is different each time, as is the artistic achievement and the reader's conception. ER