The Devil Never Sleeps (2011)

Authors: Andrei Codrescu

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“Knowing their kingdoms before it left behind some mighty structures. Knowing their history puts a certain edge on their ornaments since it consists mainly of bloody episodes. For a thousand years, people were regularly thrown out of windows for political reasons in Prague, a process known as “defenestration,” and if the cobblestones were not spattered by falling bodies, there were plenty of hangings, burnings, and barricade-making to mark them. Today’s tourists think that they are in Disneyland... because the restoration of Prague has gone to fairy-tale colors, and fairy tales, as everyone knows, have happy endings. In fairy tales, the bad dragons get their heads chopped off and the hero gets to live with the heroine in a castle. The tourists may not know it, but there are still some bad dragons in the Czech Republic today and some of them reside right in the castle, which is ruled by Kafka’s ghost and President Havel’s reputation.
The situation of the Gypsies or Romanys is one of the quiet demons stalking the Czech fairy tale.MoreLess Read More Read Less