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....

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 ...

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 ...

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