The latest book by A/P Jan Mrázek aka Pak Jan is just out, about a Czech poet’s journey to colonial Java, and more broadly about Czech literary and artistic images of our region (and beyond). Says the book cover: “In [the] texts, poetic and often comic, both landlocked Bohemia and the colonized tropical islands are seen disorientingly anew, like ‘mirrors looking at themselves in each other.’ … In its attention to how poetic travel reflects the Czech historical experience in the shadow of imperial nations, the book moves scholarly reflection on literary travel, modernity, and colonialism to a new ground.”

Get the book here: https://karolinum.cz/.../mrazek-on-this-modern-highway...