Karolína Pauknerová's book reveals the variability of the ways in which memory becomes part of the landscape, sediments in it, reproduces and disappears. On several examples - the surroundings of the Příbram road, the memory of extinct settlements on the border, megalithic buildings in southern Bohemia - it presents the landscape as a process that is co-created by memory as well as forgetting. Being in the landscape involves thinking about memory, immersing oneself in the past tense, experiencing its traces and their absence. Without this immersion, it is not possible to understand either the landscape or the memories hidden in it. -- Publisher's website. |