My review of Derek Sayer’s Postcards from Absurdistan, his wide-ranging yet highly uneven account of 20th century Czech culture and the political storms it went through, has been published on Transitions Online.
The book covers some very interesting, lesser-known writers, artists and architects as they navigated their way, personally and artistically, through independence, fascism, communism and exile.
Read the review here (unless it goes behind the paywall, in which case, pay and read it)
Photo: Adolf Hoffmeister’s collage Franz Kafka: Prague Still Threatened
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