fiction(72)

The Chattertooth Eleven

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

Bubáci pro všední den

With famous Everyday Spooks (orig. publ. 1961), Prague-born Karel Michal presents an unforgettable assortment of fantastic creatures that...

Everyday Spooks

With famous Everyday Spooks (orig. publ. 1961), Prague-born Karel Michal presents an unforgettable assortment of fantastic creatures that...

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....

Vladislav Vančura

This is the first major analytical study in English of the work of the leading Czech Avant-garde novelist and dramatist, Vladislav Vančur...

The Heart of the Czech Avant-garde

Rozmarné léto

A famous work by Vladislav Vančura about adventures of magician Arnoštek, beautiful Anna, Mrs. Kateřina and mainly of three gentlemen in ...

We Were a Handful

A famous Czech humoristic novel depicting adventures of five boys from a small Czech town in the form of a child's diary written by Petr ...

Summer of Caprice

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

Saturnino - španělsky

When the humour novel Saturnin was first published in 1942, it became an immediate bestseller and the book has become a classic of Czech ...

Paměť a naděje

Writing this book of newly adapted national legends and tales of Bohemia and Moravia, the author has taken an utterly different view than...

Z pověstí Čech a Moravy

Encyklopedie Jiřího Suchého 2

Básně A–Ž

Encyklopedie Jiřího Suchého 1

The first volume of The Encyclopaedia of Jiří Suchý comprises a sum of all his stories which have appeared in various sources since 1950s...

Povídky A–Ž