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Prague / 布拉格

Prague / 布拉格 appears in 12.慢:当米兰·昆德拉一句正经没有 as more than a place name. In the source’s reading of 《慢》, Berck’s public embarrassment depends on mistaking Prague for Budapest and then treating Czech, Polish, and Eastern European references as interchangeable.

The Czech scholar’s corrections matter because the episode treats Prague as a marker of concrete historical identity: a city tied to western cultural self-understanding, university history, Jan Hus, and the refusal to be dissolved into careless geopolitical shorthand. The mistake exposes the gap between performed solidarity and actual knowledge.

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