Town as the Site of Revolution. Sabina‘s Last Novels on the Revolution of 1848

Abstract

The topic is analyzed on the basis of the last novels by Karel Sabina “Král Ferdinand a jeho doba. Původní román z nejnovějších časů“ [“King Ferdinand and His Period. The Original Novel of the Latest Times”] (1875) and “1848: Předbřeznoví revoluční bouřliváci v Rakousku” [“1848: Pre-March Revolutionary Rebels in Austria“] (German original 1876, Czech translation 1927). The emphasis is put on the way the author, a former “revolutionary rebel”, draws the influence of the bloody street battle participants` experience on the changes in their action motivation.