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
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.
Kde život náš je v půli se svou poutí
Jedlička, JosefMidway 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
Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life
Jedlička, JosefWritten 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
Beyond the World of Men
Chew, Geoffrey (ed.)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
Why I Write?
Hrabal, BohumilThis 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
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
Rambling On
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: march 2014
recommended price: 390 czk
Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp
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
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
A World Apart and Other Stories
Hayes, Kathleen (ed.)“It grew dark and a mist spread over the countryside like a curtain. We were at the Bohemian border. Customs control, shouting, the din o...
Czech Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle
published: december 2022
recommended price: 260 czk
Behind the Lines
Hašek, JaroslavJaroslav Hašek is a Czech writer most famous for his widely read if incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik, a series of absurdist vign...
Bugulma and Other Stories
published: august 2012
recommended price: 390 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