Region - Province. The German literature of Prague, Bohemia, Moravia and Sudeten Silesia beyond Liblice. With notes on Franz Kafka as an author of a Regional Literature.
Abstract
The contribution denies the adequacy of the description of the Prague German literature based on the dichotomy Prague - Province. This dichotomy determined especially the "version" of the Prague German literature, Eduard Goldstücker 1965 pretended at the second Conference of Liblice by putting a supposed completely humanistic Prague German literature against the background of a consistently nationalist Sudeten German literature.
As the acquisition of Pavel Eisner's talk of a "threefold ghetto" this should make possible a speech of Prague German authors under the conditions of Marxism. The paper argues in contrast for the basic concept of "region" (and thus also for a "regional literature", divested of all kinds of provincialism) in the sense of a common cultural area, that includes Prague, Bohemia and Moravia.
Under these conditions, however, also Franz Kafka is a representative of such a "regional literature".