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
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.
The Chattertooth Eleven
Bass, EduardEduard Bass' story from 1922, a classic of Czech literature, has been published in English (Karolinum 2008). The translation, distinctive...
published: february 2009
recommended price: 390 czk
The Cremator (paperback)
Fuks, Ladislav“The devil’s neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.” It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and per...
published: february 2018
recommended price: 200 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
Summer of Caprice (paperback)
Vančura, VladislavIn Summer of Caprice (the classic novel of the Twenties that was adapted into the beloved film of the Czech New Wave in the Sixties) the ...
published: october 2016
recommended price: 280 czk
Summer of Caprice
Vančura, VladislavVladislav Vančura's Summer of Caprice is commonly considered untranslatable. The playful style of the narrative, the level of language ma...
published: may 2006
recommended price: 480 czk
Spolek pro ochranu zvířat
Pick, Jiří RobertIn the terrifying reality of the Terezín fortress, children were living and coming of age in the shadow of death, which was often only a ...
published: november 2018
recommended price: 290 czk
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Pick, Jiří RobertThis book is subtitled "A Humorous – If Possible – Novella from the Ghetto." It was published in 1969 by a famous satirist from Prague, a...
A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto
published: april 2018
recommended price: 380 czk
Rusalka
Kvapil, JaroslavFamous 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
Rukověť pábitelského učně
Hrabal, BohumilNovelist 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
Rozmarné léto
Vančura, VladislavA famous work by Vladislav Vančura about adventures of magician Arnoštek, beautiful Anna, Mrs. Kateřina and mainly of three gentlemen in ...
published: december 2007
recommended price: 275 czk
Rambling On (paperback)
Hrabal, BohumilBohumil 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