Derek Sayer is professor emeritus and a former Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta. His other books include the award-winning Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History and The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (both Princeton).
"Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship"
"Finalist for the PROSE Award in European History, Association of
American Publishers"
"Necessary."
*Library Journal starred review*
"Fascinating and capacious, Postcards from Absurdistan surveys
Prague’s anguished recent past, raising concerns for its future
amid new global conflicts and challenges."
*Foreword Reviews*
"Intriguing. . . . Covering literature, the graphic arts, music,
philosophy, architecture, and photography, Sayer profiles a
staggering cast of artists and intellectuals."
*Publishers Weekly*
"Informative and illuminating."---Alena Dvořáková, Dublin Review of
Books
"[A] kaleidoscopic romp across five decades of intellectual,
artistic, cultural, and political foment and creativity in Prague,
from the Nazi Anschluss to the collapse of communism. . . . The
book offers a magnificent and expansive collection of close
readings, insightful narratives, obscure gems, and sometimes-funny,
sometimes-wrenching reflections on Prague's cultural elites. . . .
Postcards from Absurdistan represents the crowning achievement of
Professor Sayer's prodigious scholarship on Czech modernity."
*2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards jury citation*
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