Czech studies(104)

Případ Kondelík

This book is a collection of reflections on the popular novel which prompted fundamental discussions on the Czech national character. The...

Epizoda z estetiky každodennosti

S/krze postmoderní teorie

This publication begins with an explanation of the genealogical concept of Postmodernism and an analysis of French philosophical thought ...

Repertorium rukopisů 17. a 18. století z muzejních sbírek v Čechách I (A–J)

The first part of a monumental work comprising information on all preserved manuscripts concerning Czech lands from the 17th and 18th cen...

Sabina

The book covers the case of the most famous Czech police informer, but also the political radical and writer Karel Sabina (1813–1877). Ka...

Neuzavřený případ policejního konfidenta

Summer of Caprice

Vladislav Vančura's Summer of Caprice is commonly considered untranslatable. The playful style of the narrative, the level of language ma...

Kapitoly o českém verši

Miroslav Červenka (1932–2005) was one of the most important personalities of the Czech literary science of the second half of the 20th ce...

Frekvenční slovník mluvené češtiny

This Frequency Dictionary of Spoken Czech is the very first dictionary of its kind, presenting authentic spoken Czech which is contrasted...

Frazeologie a idiomatika česká a obecná. Czech and General Phraseology

This book provides the first self-contained and systematic overview of the whole field of phraseology and idiomatics within a wider lingu...

Řeč ne řeč

An interview with prominent Czech poet Karel Šiktanc (1928–2021) about his life and poetry. Over a two year period Karel Šiktanc wrote hi...

Rozhovor Jaromíra Slomka s Karlem Šiktancem

Repertorium rukopisů 17. a 18. století z muzejních sbírek v Čechách II (K–O)

This publication is a follow-up to an extensive project of an Inventory of 17th and 18th Centuries Manuscripts, whose first part was publ...

Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp

The book is a novel-interview initiated by the Hungarian journalist, writer and anti-communist activist based in Slovakia László Szigeti....

Ďáblové, ženy a národ

This selection of essays and treatises by Robert B. Pynsent, one of the most renowned foreign experts on Czech studies (since 1991, a pro...

Výbor z úvah o české literatuře