fiction(70)

Why I Write?

This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature’s greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Maréchal put it, “the moment ...

And Other Early Prose Pieces

Kde život náš je v půli se svou poutí

Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life is the first line of "Inferno" from Dante’s Divine Comedy, and right from the start, the name is in b...

Dvě hostiny

This collection under the somewhat metaphorical title, Two Feasts, presents a selection of short stories by leading Vietnamese representa...

Antologie povídek z Vietnamu

Lamentation for 77,297 Victims

Jiří Weil’s documentary prose poem, Lamentation for 77,297 Victims is a literary monument to the Czech Jews killed during the Holocaust. ...

Ploughshares into Swords

“The terrible bow was drawn taut. Men had let their powers be taken captive and had become the stooges of governments, they had become dr...

Sari gelin

Sari gelin, a selection of modern Azerbaijanian short stories, attests to the life of this Caucasian country both geographically and cult...

Antologie povídek z Ázerbájdžánu

Saturnin - ukrajinsky

Saturnin was first published in 1942 and since then there have been more than twenty editions in Czech and its author has become a nation...

Saturnin - vietnamsky

Saturnin was first published in 1942 and since then there have been more than twenty editions in Czech and its author has become a nation...

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...

But Crime Does Punish

"So, as you see, I am familiar with the case. However, we can’t discuss it unless you learn more about some other court cases, so that yo...

Tales of the Prague Ghetto

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

Ear

A paranoid thriller of life under surveillance in Communist Czechoslovakia. A deputy minister in the Communist Party, Ludvík enjoys all t...