Praga

by Richard Burton

Gioiello di architettura gotica, barocca e modernista, Praga è anche città di icone e simboli: statue, santi e segni rivelano un turbolento passato di conflitti religiosi e culturali. Città d'incubi per Kafka e patria del buon soldato Svejk, la capitale ceca ha anche dato i natali ai due più emblematici scrittori del ventesimo secolo. Richard Burton esplora la metropoli dell'allusione teatrale, in cui teatro e politica sono sempre stati indissolubilmente legati. La sua interpretazione del passato e del presente culturale della città comprende l'opera e la musica rock, le marionette e il cinema, il surrealismo e il realismo socialista. Burton offre una lettura della città al tempo stesso acuta e provocatoria.

241 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

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Do not confuse with Richard Francis Burton
Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award – for My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Robe (1953), Becket (1964), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and Equus (1977) – six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role, without ever winning. He was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.
He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor. The couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news.