Grandmother. Pictures from Rural Life
Does a literary text have the power to shape the landscape? If an ordinary rural valley is populated in the mind of the viewer with characters from a familiar book, the image of the Czech Arcadia is created. To not only see the valley, but also to feel it, the viewer must know the myth of the Czech countryside as a source of the nation's strength and accept it as part of their own identity. Thus, an idyllic place becomes a national landscape. The harmonious rural national landscape is a symbol of the homeland, an emotionally experienced image of the viewer's home.
| Subject: | The 19th Century in Us |
| Author: | Němcová, Božena |
| Title: | Grandmother. Pictures from Rural Life |
| Date: | 1855 |
| Place of publication: | Prague |
| Publisher: | Jaroslav Pospíšil |
| Origin: | from library collections |
| Licence: | Free license |
