Czech studies(100)

Samizdat Past and Present

This anthology of texts by Czech literary scientists presents the phenomenon of the samizdat and its historical transformation. The chapt...

Seven Days to the Funeral

Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalised memoir of Ján Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozn...

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...

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 ...

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

Summer of Caprice

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

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 ...

Tales of the Prague Ghetto

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

Textová cvičení z českého jazyka

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 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 Chattertooth Eleven

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