Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and His Generation, 1911-1938(Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)

Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

In most histories of Europe before the First World War, modern life in Habsburg Mitteleuropa takes on a decidedly gloomy cast. Centering on Vienna in the twilight years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, such accounts describe the failure of rationalism and t