2021
DOI: 10.1080/00085006.2021.1915520
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Grotesque artifacts: state socialist lieux de mémoire in novels by Pavel Pepperstein and Jáchym Topol

Abstract: The article explores grotesque forms of post-socialist memory and representations of state socialist lieux de mémoire in Pavel Pepperstein's novel Prazhskaia noch′ (A Prague Night, 2011) and Jáchym Topol's novel Citlivý člověk (A sensitive person, 2017). Both novels can be classified in the genre of "magical historicism," which processes the legacy of past traumatic events. Pepperstein's novel satirizes the contradictions of post-socialist memory culture. The Gottwald mausoleum in Prague, a central site of Cz… Show more

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