Abstrakt
Reading Prague: Prague as a Literary Story Lecture on the International student conference "Prva stran" in Ljubljana, Slovenia was dealing with reading Prague - Prague as a Literary Story and was focused on reading a topographical city as a literary text: Prague as a perfect example of a city expanding and even architecturally growing through literary texts and their imagination, horror, madness, marvel, the fantastic and the inexplicable - especially in the beginning of the 20th century. In this respect, Prague projects itself as a space of multiculturalism and at the same time a as a frightening atmosphere of lost connections, a search for identities, as a fantasm on the thin line between dreams and reality, from Meyrink and the treasury of folktales, baroque mysticism, Czech decadence (for instance, Paul Lappin and Jiri Karasek) to Egon Kisch's tales of the lost Prague undergrounds.