fiction(70)

Rukověť pábitelského učně

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turnin...

Povídky

Saturnin - rusky

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best-seller. This is entirely appropriate, for while Saturnin draws on a trad...

Un'estate capricciosa

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

Les Hommes hors-jeu

Emmanuel Habasko est un jeune chômeur habitant avec son père dans un petit appartement de Zizkov, faubourg prolétaire de la capitale tché...

Behind the Lines

Jaroslav Hašek is a Czech writer most famous for his widely read if incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik, a series of absurdist vign...

Bugulma and Other Stories

Premchand’s Short Story Reader

This publication is a critical edition of 22 short stories by the founder of modern Hindu fiction – Dhanpat Rai, known in the literary wo...

Velitelem města Bugulmy

Jaroslav Hašek is a Czech writer most famous for his widely read if incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik, a series of absurdist vign...

Nesmír

Mit dem Löwen im Wappen

Jan Šmíd (1921–2002), popular author of detective and humorous novels, between 1989 and 1999 released a series of novels from the era of ...

Hrad Svícen

Following up on the successful book of poems Spadl buben do kedluben and a CD set of audio recordings Fairy Tales we continue publishing ...

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...