Magic Prague

Author(s)

• Ripellino, Angelo Maria
• Heim, Michael Henry
• Marinelli, David Newton

Bibliographic Information

Magic Prague

Angelo Maria Ripellino ; translated by David Newton Marinelli ; edited by Michael Heim

Macmillan, 1994

Other Title

Praga Magica

Uniform Title

Ripellino, Angelo Maria, 1923- -- Praga magica

Note

1st pub: Torino : Giulio Einaudi editore , 1973

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'A superb, haunting, clotted mad masterpiece.'- John Banville, The Observer This unique cultural history attempts to go beyond the tourist clich of Prague as the 'golden city' to bring out all the mystery, ambiguity, gloom, lethargy and hidden fascination of the city on the Vltava. Ripellino slips into the style of melodrama and ghost stories, the anecdotes of the enchanted traveller and the outlandish bad taste of beer-teller tales to bring out the sorcery of the Bohemian capital in a mixture of fact and fiction.

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Details

• NCID: BA21231537
• ISBN:
  • 0333569040
• LCCN: 92011065
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ita
• Place of Publication: Basingtoke ; London
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 333 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DB2610
  • DC20 : 943.7/12
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Prague (Czechoslovakia)
• Uniform Title ID:
  • EA00056761