Czech studies(88)

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 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...

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 Vancura'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

Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině

The Dictionary of Affixes includes prefixes and suffixes, however, it also presents numerous parts of composite words that are sometimes ...

Slabika a její hranice v češtině

This book presents a complex analysis of syllables in Czech. The general part presents the most up-to-date and detailed overview of infor...

Skrze postmoderní teorie

Hauer, Tomáš: Through Postmodern Theory This publication begins with an explanation of the genealogical concept of Postmodernism and an ...