Unsound Siblings
Bondy, EgonBondy’s merry utopia, or rather anti-utopia, was written during the bleakest years of “normalization” in Communist Czechoslovakia during ...
published: april 2026
recommended price: 360 czk
Central European modern history is notable for many political and cultural discontinuities and often violent changes as well as many attempts to preserve and (re)invent traditional cultural identities. This series cultivates contemporary translations of influential literary works into English (and other languages) which have not been available to global readership due to censorship, the effects of Cold War or repetitive political disruptions in Czech publishing and its international ties.
Readers in English both in today’s cosmopolitan Prague or anywhere in the physical and electronic world can thus become acquainted with works which capture the Central European historical experience and which express and also have helped to form Czech and Central European nature, humour and imagination.
Believing that any literary canon can be defined only in dialogue with other cultures, the series will bring proven classics used in Western university courses as well as (re)discoveries aiming to provide new perspectives in intermedial areal studies of literature, history and culture.
All titles are accompanied by an afterword, the translations are reviewed and circulated in the scholarly community before publication which has been reflected by nominations for several literary awards.
Beyond the World of Men
Chew, Geoffrey (ed.)This collection opens a window into the largely unknown world of Czech women’s writing in the fin de siècle. With stories of women compel...
Women’s Fiction at the Czech Fin de Siècle
published: february 2024
recommended price: 390 czk
Transfigured Night
Moníková, LibušeLeonora Marty, who fled Czechoslovakia decades earlier, has returned after the Velvet Revolution. Having concluded her ballet of The Makr...
published: may 2023
recommended price: 260 czk
A World Apart and Other Stories
Hayes, Kathleen (ed.)“It grew dark and a mist spread over the countryside like a curtain. We were at the Bohemian border. Customs control, shouting, the din o...
Czech Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle
published: november 2022
recommended price: 370 czk
Tales of the Prague Ghetto
Kapper, SiegfriedTrained in philosophy and medicine, the writer, translator, scholar, and political and cultural activist Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879) dev...
published: july 2022
recommended price: 280 czk
Ear
Procházka, JanA paranoid thriller of life under surveillance in Communist Czechoslovakia. A deputy minister in the Communist Party, Ludvík enjoys all t...
published: july 2022
recommended price: 280 czk
The Lesser Histories
Zábrana, JanFrom the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own lif...
published: june 2022
recommended price: 340 czk
Ploughshares into Swords
Vančura, Vladislav“The terrible bow was drawn taut. Men had let their powers be taken captive and had become the stooges of governments, they had become dr...
published: december 2021
recommended price: 400 czk
Lamentation for 77,297 Victims
Weil, JiříJiří Weil’s documentary prose poem, Lamentation for 77,297 Victims is a literary monument to the Czech Jews killed during the Holocaust. ...
published: february 2021
recommended price: 200 czk
Rusalka
Kvapil, JaroslavFamous as the libretto for Antonín Dvořák’s opera of the same name, Jaroslav Kvapil’s poem Rusalka is an intriguing work of literature on...
A Lyrical Fairy Tale in Three Acts
published: october 2020
recommended price: 280 czk
Writing Underground
Machovec, MartinIn this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machove...
Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia
published: december 2019
recommended price: 290 czk