Ideas and Travels: Bohemia in Second Life

jeudi 11 juin 2015

Bohemia in Second Life

The wonder of this city is even hard to describe. I had a chance to get around the city in the length and breadth.

The environment of Prague has given me endless emotions: the magnificent art nouveau buildings, the old clock tower, the wide streets dressed up for Christmas imminent, the soft lights of the pub they have given us the unforgettable atmosphere of Czech capital. The Old Town, the Jewish Quarter, Charles Bridge, are some of the most scenic areas that do appreciate the city. Visit the "Golden Lane" is located in the castle and characterized by colorful houses built in the Mannerist style, made me think of the "big" native of the Czech capital, and in particular to Franz Kafka, writer born in 1883 and lived for two years in this very charming street whose name comes from the legend that you would live even the alchemists who sought to transform iron into gold for Rudolf II of Habsburg. Among the streets and alleys of the old town it seemed to plunge into the atmosphere of Prague of the time, and we can trace with greater awareness the inspiration of his work, particularly of "The Metamorphosis", in which gloomy weather elements converge social and personal services . The former are to be found in the background within which the story takes place: the same environment in which he lives his family, now in Prague early '900 dominated by false values such as success and profit at any cost, a fake moralism and widespread hypocrisy. So Gregor Samsa, the protagonist of the story, becoming alienated and depersonalized. The metamorphosis has also a purely personal meaning, referring to the problematic relationship of the author with his father, emblem of rigid and strict authority, but most of domination and monopoly overwhelming sull'estro creative writer. This makes a total cancellation of the self and the predominance of Kafka in a suffocating sense of helplessness that makes him feel "prisoner" of an invisible prison.