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
For 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
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
In 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
A 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
It’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
Described 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
This 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
Midway 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
In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machove...
Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia
published: december 2019
recommended price: 290 czk
Famous 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
Jiří 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
“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