Krajina mezi pamětí a zapomínáním: Studie z Čech

Karolína Pauknerová’s book reveals the variability of the ways in which memory becomes part of the landscape, sedimenting in it, reproducing itself and disappearing. Using several examples – the surroundings of the Příbram road, the recollection of vanished settlements in the borderlands, megalithic buildings in southern Bohemia – she presents the landscape as a process that is co-created by memory as well as forgetting. To be in the landscape entails thinking about memory, immersing oneself in the passage of time, experiencing its traces and their absence. Without this immersion, it is impossible to understand either the landscape or the memory hidden in it.