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.
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
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
Un été capricieux
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: december 2014
recommended price: 500 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
Summer of Caprice
Vančura, VladislavVladislav Vancura'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
Un'estate capricciosa
Vančura, VladislavVladislav Vancura's Summer of Caprice is commonly considered untranslatable. The playful style of the narrative, the level of language ma...
published: november 2013
recommended price: 480 czk
A Czech Dreambook
Vaculík, LudvíkIt’s 1979 in Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing restoration of repressive communism known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík h...
published: october 2019
recommended price: 540 czk
The Well at Morning
Reynek, BohuslavPoet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obskurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands; although he suffered at...
Selected Poems and Graphic Artworks, 1925–1971
published: september 2017
recommended price: 490 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
Les Hommes hors-jeu
Poláček, KarelEmmanuel Habasko est un jeune chômeur habitant avec son père dans un petit appartement de Zizkov, faubourg prolétaire de la capitale tché...
published: december 2012
recommended price: 430 czk
We Were a Handful
Poláček, KarelA famous Czech humoristic novel depicting adventures of five boys from a small Czech town in the form of a child's diary written by Petr ...
published: december 2007
recommended price: 490 czk