ABSTRACT
The concept of Central Europe, redefined and propagated among others by Milan Kundera in the 1980s, is a good example of the popular geographic imaginary. For Kundera, the part of Europe that is situated geographically in the center is "culturally in the West and politically in the East". Eastern Europe is not European, because of the conception of the East. Certainly, the collapse of the bipolar world order in Europe was just such a historical situation Kundera envisaged. However, the historical situation is continuously changing, which means that the cultural cartographers of Europe have no chance to lean back with the satisfaction of completing a job well done. The intellectual movement around the concept of Central Europe, by constructing and imposing it most of all as cultural heritage in the Cold War geopolitical context, was a more or less successful strategy to participate in drawing the map of Europe.
