Contemporary Czech prose; Ideology; Topos of housing estates; Memory; Literary place names

The housing estates represent one of the newest forms of urban space which mass expansion over several decades has significantly altered the character of not only Czech cities. Our contribution focuses on the representation of the housing estates, its varieties and its forms in the latest Czech prose. On a selected sample of works the paper follows the character and identity of this space and it deals with assessing the presence of ideological influences in the memory of place. In some cases, also the contemporary literary image of the housing estate is compared to older literary works that originated during the period of normalization.

The housing estates represent one of the newest forms of urban space which mass expansion over several decades has significantly altered the character of not only Czech cities. Our contribution focuses on the representation of the housing estates, its varieties and its forms in the latest Czech prose. On a selected sample of works the paper follows the character and identity of this space and it deals with assessing the presence of ideological influences in the memory of place. In some cases, also the contemporary literary image of the housing estate is compared to older literary works that originated during the period of normalization.