Czech studies(89)

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...

The Chattertooth Eleven

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

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 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 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 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

Tři stálice moderní české prózy: Neruda, Čapek, Kundera

In his new books, Aleš Haman, a literary scientist, historian and critic, emeritus professor of aesthetics at the University of South Boh...

Učebnice české morfologie s cvičebnicí pro studující bohemistiky a příbuzných oborů

Užívání a prožívání jazyka

V perspektivě desetiletí

Over the Decades, written by Oleg Malevič (1928–2013), a Russian scholar focusing on Czech studies, presents thirty essays written in the...

Valenční slovník českých sloves

Valency, that is "the number and character of places (arguments), which a verb (...) ties to itself" (Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Czech, ...

Valenční slovník českých sloves VALLEX

The Valency Dictionary of Czech Verbs complements the series of much needed books in Czech language studies covering both theoretical and...