Transfigured Night

Libuse Moníková

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• A vision of late-twentieth-century Prague from an acclaimed Czech novelist. In late 1992, three years after the Velvet Revolution and as Czechoslovaki... Lees meer

End of the World

Ivan M Jirous

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet "Magor" (which translates roughly to "fool" or "madman"), Ivan Jirous was on... Lees meer

Ear

Jan Procházka

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• A paranoid thriller of life under surveillance in Soviet Czechoslovakia. A deputy minister in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Ludvík enjoys all... Lees meer

Writing Underground

Martin Machovec

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines t... Lees meer

Tales of the Prague Ghetto

Siegfried Kapper

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• A collection of nineteenth-century folklore-infused tales of Jewish life in Prague. Trained in philosophy and medicine, the writer, translator, schola... Lees meer

Why I Write?

Bohumil Hrabal

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• "Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity." -- New Yorker "A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparis... Lees meer

Rusalka

Jaroslav Kvapil

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Famous as the libretto for Antonín Dvorák's opera of the same name, Jaroslav Kvapil's poem Rusalka is an intriguing work of literature on its own. Dir... Lees meer

A World Apart and Other Stories

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• A collection of short stories by Czech women from the turn of the twentieth century. A World Apart brings together translations of eight stories by Cz... Lees meer

Saturnin

Zdenek Jirotka

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected--if temporary--reprieve from the gri... Lees meer

Behind the Lines

Jaroslav Hasek

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik , a series of absurdis... Lees meer

The Lesser Histories

Jan Zábrana

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• The first collection of poetry in English by an acclaimed twentieth-century Czech writer. From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Ja... Lees meer

God's Rainbow

Jaroslav Durych

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neither d... Lees meer

The Pied Piper

Viktor Dyk

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• For The Pied Piper , Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk ... Lees meer

The Cremator

Ladislav Fuks

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• "The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist."--Giovanni Papini It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and... Lees meer

Lamentation for 77,297 Victims

Jirí Weil

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• "Smoke from nearby factories shrouds a countryside as flat as a table, a countryside stretching off to infinity. Covering it are the ashes of millions... Lees meer

A Czech Dreambook

Ludvík Vaculík

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• It's 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer's block. It has been n... Lees meer

Ploughshares Into Swords

Vladislav Vancura

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• The first English-language translation of a classic Czech antiwar novel written in the wake of WWI . Originally published in 1925, Ploughshares into S... Lees meer