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The article is about the attempt to literary overcome borders in Central Europe in Jaroslav Rudis's 'railway novel' Winterbergs letzte Reise. The very old protagonist Wenzel Winterberg and his nurse and companion Jan Kraus cross long stretches of the former k.u.k. area on Winterberg's 'last crossing'. In addition to taking actual border crossings into account, the article focuses on examining the abolition of borders through the transformation of concrete places into cultural-literary spaces. In doing so, literary methods such as conversational prose etc. are considered. The recurring motif of the Battle of Königgrätz has a special function in the sense of a collective experience of suffering as a central European founding myth. It also plays a significant role for both protagonists in driving through literary places and in the memory of past border situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Focuses on modern Czech literature. Czech literati and intellectuals set in the mid-1890s; Departure of Czech writers from Prague to Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany; Prague's development of a distinct social spatialization; Violation of the boundaries of Czech space and convention.