"The beautiful landscape of battlefields, cemeteries and ruins". On the novel "Winterberg's last journey" by Jaroslav Rudiš
2020
Abstrakt
The essay describes the novel "Winterberg's Last Journey" by Jaroslav Rudiš as a large-scale study of Central Europe, which cannot free itself from its gloomy history, but which, on the other hand, can look back to an impressive continuity of interculturality in the (often peaceful) coexistence of very different ' national cultures'. Beyond the content, the form of the novel depicts the monotonous rattle of the railway, with which the two protagonists travel through Europe, across the rails.
The many verbatim repetitions match the text of the "railway music" and the repetitions of the European landscapes that can be observed outside through the railway window.