Compelling Reading for the Summer Months. Jiří Šoukal, Slasti a strasti letních bytů: Život na letních bytech a v letních vilách v éře první republiky

Abstract

The monograph by Jiří Šoukal is a fruitful analysis of leisure-time strategies and intermingling of urban and rural environment. This welcome survey of what is now-adays a half-forgotten form of spending leisure time in interwar Czechoslovakia is a valuable contribution to a broader discourse of consumer society, of special impor-tance for defining consumerism more rigorously, and seeking a less injurious model of human society sustainable in the long run.

Keywords

• Summer Flats
• Leisure time
• Interwar Czechoslovakia
• Consumer Society