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Hrabal, BohumilThe book is a novel-interview initiated by the Hungarian journalist, writer and anti-communist activist based in Slovakia László Szigeti....
published: january 2008
recommended price: 390 czk
The book is a novel-interview initiated by the Hungarian journalist, writer and anti-communist activist based in Slovakia László Szigeti....
published: january 2008
recommended price: 390 czk
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czec...
An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab
published: may 2016
recommended price: 280 czk
This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature’s greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Maréchal put it, “the moment ...
And Other Early Prose Pieces
published: november 2019
recommended price: 490 czk
Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turnin...
Povídky
published: march 2014
recommended price: 345 czk
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czec...
An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab
published: march 2014
recommended price: 390 czk
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
Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life is the first line of "Inferno" from Dante’s Divine Comedy, and right from the start, the name is in b...
published: november 2019
recommended price: 320 czk
Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia’s postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Jo...
published: february 2016
recommended price: 430 czk
Trained 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
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...
A Lyrical Fairy Tale in Three Acts
published: october 2020
recommended price: 280 czk
From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the latter twentieth century displaye...
Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948–1989)
published: april 2018
recommended price: 260 czk
In 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