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
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.
Bohumil Hrabal
Pelán, JiříDescribed as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century,” Bohumil Hrabal ranks among the most important and widely transla...
A Full-length Portrait
published: october 2019
recommended price: 260 czk
The Shop on Main Street
Grosman, LadislavA classical work of the 1960s Czechoslovak literature and film in a new publication of Iris Urwin Lewit’s translation. An original and re...
published: august 2019
recommended price: 280 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
The Pied Piper
Dyk, ViktorFor The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-c...
published: april 2018
recommended price: 280 czk
Views from the Inside
Machovec, Martin (ed.)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
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
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
Le Chasseur de rats (paperback)
Dyk, ViktorThis novella, written by poet, fiction writer, playwright and journalist Viktor Dyk, was first published as serial in a magazine in 1911–...
published: june 2017
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
We Were a Handful (paperback)
Poláček, KarelThe acclaimed novel We Were a Handful is the humorous story of five small-town boys. In 1943 during one of the lowest points of his life ...
published: october 2016
recommended price: 280 czk