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Rimbaud's poem "Au cabaret vert" presents a sort of idyll connected with harmonic movement, which can be found also in other Rimbaud's poems from this period, e.g. the well-known "Ma Bohème". Counterpart of these poems are the poems like "Les Assis" representing anxious existence fixed to the chair. However, both groups of poems share similar motif of curling -- with significantly different connotations. This complementarity prefigures subsequent development of Rimbaud's poetry where the idyll has no place any more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Theory of Science / Teorie Vedy is the property of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Centre for Science, Technology & Society Studies and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

High-rise housing settlements are an integral part of every city in the postsocialist area of Eastern Europe. These prefabricated urbanistic wholes, of varying extent, have been taking on a very interesting and distinctive character in the context of the political, economic and social changes of recent years. My principal interest, however, is not in the actual changes in the character of the settlements and how to describe them, but rather in how these changes are reflected in the utterances of those directly involved. In this study, based on narrative biographical interviews with inhabitants of the Stodulky settlement in Prague, I attempt to interpret how these dynamic changes are reflected on the narrators' side. The primary focus of interest is therefore the conceptualisation of changes in the relationship to the settlement as home (Svašek, 2002), in the context of roughly the past thirty years. Theoretically I take my premises from the anthropological concepts differentiating place and space (Hirsch, 1995; De Certeau, 1984), where these two ideas are conceived as two distinct dimensions of the perception of spatiality. Place functions as a category related to everyday perception. Space is more an impersonal structure leading beyond the plane of the everyday. Based on this differentiation, I will consider how the settlement appears in narration, and how place and space relate to the time dimension in the settlement's evolution. The narrators show a tendency to categorise the settlement's "history". This schematisation again reveals a further interesting level, stemming from narrative reactualisation of the personal past in the locality being examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]