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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Macura Vladimír <1945-1999.>"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The mystifications of a nation : \"the potato bug\" and other essays on Czech culture / / Vladimír Macura ; translated and edited by Hana Píchová and Craig Cravens"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9786612916434"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9781282916432"]
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[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (xxvi, 139 pages) : illustrations"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"943.71"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Czech Republic Civilization"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Czechoslovakia Civilization"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Czechoslovakia Intellectual life"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Czech Republic Intellectual life"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"pt. 1. The nineteenth century : genesis of a nation -- pt. 2. The joyous age : reflections on Czechoslovak communism."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","A keen observer of culture, Czech writer Vladimír 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. In reflections on two centuries of Czech history, he ponders the symbolism in daily life. Bridges, for example-once a force of civilization connecting diverse peoples-became a sign of destruction in World War I. Turning to the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, Macura probes a range of richly symbolic practices, from the naming of the Prague metro system, to the mass gymnastic displays of the Communist period, to post-Velvet Revolution preoccupations with the national anthem. In \"The Potato Bug,\" he muses on one of the stranger moments in the Cold War-the claim that the United States was "]
[{"$nulls":4},"deliberately dropping insects from airplanes to wreak havoc on the crops of Czechoslovakia. While attending to the distinctively Czech elements of such phenomena, Macura reveals the larger patterns of Soviet-brand socialism. \"We were its cocreators,\" he declares, \"and its analysis touches us as a scalpel turned on its own body.\" Writing with erudition, irony, and wit, Macura turns the scalpel on the authoritarian state around him, demythologizing its mythology"]