Books by Veronika Tuckerova
Prager Moderne(n). Interkulturelle Perspektiven auf Raum, Identität und Literatur. , 2018
This is the introductory text for the catalogue of the exhibition Charta Story, Příběh Charty 77/... more This is the introductory text for the catalogue of the exhibition Charta Story, Příběh Charty 77/The Story of Charter 77, at the National Gallery in Prague, Salm Palace, January 2017 to January 2019.
Scholarly Articles by Veronika Tuckerova
Journal of World Literature , 2017
This article takes a “genealogical” approach to the concept of minor literature. It argues that t... more This article takes a “genealogical” approach to the concept of minor literature. It argues that to understand the concept of minor literature we need to research its historical origins and intellectual genealogy in multi-lingual Bohemia. The concept of minor literature originated with the idea of “triple ghetto” that emerged in the Prague Czech-German-Jewish environment and was applied to explain the work of Kafka and his fellow Prague writers. Minor literature is the most famous application of the “triple ghetto” concept. A close reconsideration of Kafka’s German/Czech/Jewish Prague reveals interesting relations among several “small,” “minor” and “ultraminor” literatures, relationships that Deleuze and Guattari overlooked. The relationships between various literary entities in Prague extend beyond the binary positioning of “minor” and “major” inherent in the concept of minor literature. In addition to Kafka’s relationship to German literature, we need to consider Kafka’s relationship to the “small” Czech literature, the marginal “ultraminor” German and German Jewish and Czech Jewish literatures of his times, and perhaps most interestingly, to writers who were equally at home in German and Czech.
This article explores the uses of the concept of “ghetto” in Czech samizdat and underground cult... more This article explores the uses of the concept of “ghetto” in Czech samizdat and underground culture during the 1970s and 1980s, from the “merry ghetto” of the Czech underground, to various resurfacings of Paul Eisner’s concept of the “triple ghetto” topos in samizdat, and specifically in underground, literature, film, and music. The ’70s and ’80s underground held Prague German and German Jewish writers and the places connected to their work in special regard. This article argues that links existed between the various concepts of “ghetto” (sociological, literary and historical) and the perceptions of Prague by samizdat/underground authors.
New German Critique, Feb 2015
This article examines Eduard Goldstücker’s construction of his own vita through his complex engag... more This article examines Eduard Goldstücker’s construction of his own vita through his complex engagement with Franz Kafka from 1963 to 1989. Archival documents about Goldstücker’s trial and surveillance, found in the archives of the Secret Police in Prague, help us understand Goldstücker’s readings of Kafka and his understanding of his own life through his readings of Kafka. Goldstücker gradually came to frame his own past in terms borrowed from Kafka’s Trial while interpreting Kafka’s writings as a commentary on totalitarianism. A close reading of his memoir, written in exile and therefore free of external political pressures, reveals that, rather than a means for a political critique of communism in general or Goldstücker’s own involvement with communism, Kafka became a tool for self-evasion in Goldstücker’s writing. This interpretation goes against the accepted Western reception of Goldstücker as a heroic,
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almost dissident, figure and contributes to a more nuanced narrative of the reception of Kafka’s texts under communism as anticipating and critiquing totalitarian everydayness and as a simile for dissidence.
Keywords Eduard Goldstücker, exile, Franz Kafka, Liblice conference, memoir, reading practices
Ivan Martin Jirous's "Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival": Form and Cultural Continuity. ... more Ivan Martin Jirous's "Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival": Form and Cultural Continuity. Magorova konference. Ed. Edita Onuferová and Terezie Pokorná. (Prague: Revovler Revue, 2014)
Interviews by Veronika Tuckerova
I was interviewed for this French TV program about Franz Kafka. The program ran on September 6, 2... more I was interviewed for this French TV program about Franz Kafka. The program ran on September 6, 2018.
Book Reviews by Veronika Tuckerova
Modernism/modernity, 2020
Review of Anne Jamison's: Kafka's Other Prague: Writings from the Czechoslovak Republic. Northwes... more Review of Anne Jamison's: Kafka's Other Prague: Writings from the Czechoslovak Republic. Northwestern University Press, 2018.
The American Interest, 2020
Revolver Revue
Review of the exhibition of the sculptor František Skála at the National Gallery in Prague.
Colloquia Germanica, Mar 2017
Aspen Review Central Europe, 4/2014
https://www.aspeninstitute.cz/en/article/4-2014-an-american-in-prague/
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Books by Veronika Tuckerova
Scholarly Articles by Veronika Tuckerova
NGC124_Tuckerova 2
almost dissident, figure and contributes to a more nuanced narrative of the reception of Kafka’s texts under communism as anticipating and critiquing totalitarian everydayness and as a simile for dissidence.
Keywords Eduard Goldstücker, exile, Franz Kafka, Liblice conference, memoir, reading practices
Interviews by Veronika Tuckerova
Book Reviews by Veronika Tuckerova
NGC124_Tuckerova 2
almost dissident, figure and contributes to a more nuanced narrative of the reception of Kafka’s texts under communism as anticipating and critiquing totalitarian everydayness and as a simile for dissidence.
Keywords Eduard Goldstücker, exile, Franz Kafka, Liblice conference, memoir, reading practices