Burt Kimmelman, Prague and Memory (Part III)
PRAGUE AND MEMORY
Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part series of a new work by American poet and critic...
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Burt Kimmelman, Prague and Memory (Part I)
Absurdism and subversion are endemic here. Indeed, they make up the fabric of Czech life at a signal moment in Czech cultural-political history. They merge to become a third, exquisitely sharp, subtle, element in the Czech psyche: hilarity. It threatens the release of chaos into the Bohemian bloodstream.
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There is a delicacy to Kimmelman’s language, a gauzy diction that seems to barely hold together, yet allows the subject of inquiry or observation to show through, giving it respectful precedence.