The Mystifications of a Nation: The Potato Bug and Other Essays on Czech Culture

by Vladimír Macura

A keen observer of culture, Czech writer Vladim r Macura (1945-99) devoted a lifetime to illuminating the myths that defined his nation. The Mystifications of a Nation, the first book-length translation of Macura's work in English, offers essays deftly analyzing a variety of cultural phenomena that originate, Macura argues, in the "big bang" of the nineteenth-century Czech National Revival, with its celebration of a uniquely Czech identity.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299248941
• ISBN13: 9780299248949
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"