Zimmermann or Cimrman? A hero with the wrong pronunciation
E-book, Czech
Zimmermann or Cimrman? A hero with the wrong pronunciation
The most famous Czech or the most forgotten Austrian? Z or C? The book encourages the reader to tread on a bit of thin ice. No, don' t worry, this is not political incorrectness, but historical and transcriptional speculation. If you like to think about what ifs, you have a chance to learn something. Who and why is the guardian spirit of a place so picturesque and mysterious that we have accepted it without any ideological prejudices? T was wrong. Luther, when he translated part of the sacred text with the words - " is this not the carpenter' s son? " or the national revivalists, when they erased from their writings any mention proving the existence of Z or C? Find out why Z or C is persistently referred to as the genius loci and uncover where legends intersect and why and under what circumstances they cancel each other out. Where did your soul' s need to surround itself with legends, both confirmed and disproven, yet enduring in historical memory like sacred trees and landscape archetypes come from? The end of the legends offers one of many possible explanations. It is not the only one, nor the last.
