Czech studies(100)

The Well at Morning

Poet 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

The Shop on Main Street

A classical work of the 1960s Czechoslovak literature and film in a new publication of Iris Urwin Lewit’s translation. An original and re...

The Pied Piper

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...

The Lesser Histories

From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own lif...

The Chattertooth Eleven

Eduard Bass' story from 1922, a classic of Czech literature, has been published in English (Karolinum 2008). The translation, distinctive...

The culture of neural networks

The possibilities of generated cultural production have undergone fundamental changes in recent years, leading to a rethinking of existin...

Synthetic literature and art in (not only) the Czech and Slovak context

The Cremator (paperback)

“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...

Textová cvičení z českého jazyka

Tales of the Prague Ghetto

Trained in philosophy and medicine, the writer, translator, scholar, and political and cultural activist Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879) dev...

Svatováclavská bible

"The Czech Bible, That is the Holy Scriptures Based on the Used Ancient and General Latin Translation Endorsed by the General Holy Roman ...

Summer of Caprice

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

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

This 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