6/30/2023 0 Comments Absurdistan book![]() ![]() ![]() The multifaceted artistic climate that existed before the war was now forced to work around new forms of socialist oppression. The book further details Czechoslovakia’s retaliatory wave of anti-German hatred following World War II and the country’s later Soviet domination. Milena Jesenská, a renowned journalist, activist, and one of Kafka’s lovers, died in 1944 during her Ravensbrück camp internment. Dissenters and Jews were arrested, executed, or sent to concentration camps. His armies clamped down on personal, artistic, and political freedoms. Sayer notes that Hitler was obsessed with reclaiming the region. Though Kafka died before the 1939 Nazi occupation of Prague, the invasion of the Third Reich exceeded any nightmare he envisioned. One of the best-known denizens of Prague, Franz Kafka, seemed to predict the city’s future: his fiction was set in an often surreal world with twisted laws and little hope for escape. It is meticulous in recounting the regimes they have endured. Princeton University Press ( Nov 1, 2022)ĭerek Sayer’s Postcards from Absurdistan is an encompassing review of cultural and sociopolitical Prague from tumultuous 1938 onward, detailed with compassion for the Czech people. ![]()
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