fiction(70)

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 ...

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 ...

Nesmír

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...

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...

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

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...

Un'estate capricciosa

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

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...

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

Rambling On

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czec...

An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Of Mice and Mooshaber

Ladislav Fuks is an outstanding Czech writer, whose works primarily consist of psychological fiction focusing on the themes of anxiety an...