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
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.
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 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
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: october 2016
recommended price: 280 czk
God's Rainbow
Durych, JaroslavThis is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes...
published: september 2016
recommended price: 450 czk
Behind the Lines (paperback)
Hašek, JaroslavThe collection of short stories entitled Behind the Lines: Bugulma and Other Stories draws on Hašek’s experience from revolutionary Russi...
published: august 2016
recommended price: 280 czk
Klapzubova jedenáctka
Bass, EduardThis already classic story by Eduard Bass from 1922 tells the story of father Klapzuba, who has raised his eleven sons as phenomenal socc...
published: june 2016
recommended price: 250 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