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

Everyday Spooks

Karel Michal

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Prague-born Karel Michal (1932-84) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakia's oppressive communist regime. Prevented from study... 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

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

We Were a Handful

Karel Polácek

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• A favorite work of Czech humor, We Were a Handful depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the gro... Lees meer

Rambling on

Bohumil Hrabal

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his ... Lees meer

Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life

Josef Jedlicka

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Journey of Our ... 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

Of Mice and Mooshaber

Ladislav Fuks

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Ladislav Fuks (1923-94) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psychological fiction, explores themes of anxiety and life... Lees meer

Bohumil Hrabal

Jirí Pelán

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors... 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

The Well at Morning

Bohuslav Reynek

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Springtide A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit . Its blazing bobble dwells in leaves, alive, and swells in scarlet. The flo... 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

Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp

Bohumil Hrabal

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing i... 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

Summer of Caprice

Vladislav Vancura

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Summer of Caprice , a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly co... Lees meer

Summer of Caprice

Vladislav Vancura

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Czech Classics
• Summer of Caprice , a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly co... 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

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

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

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

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

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