(2024)

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

Why So Easily . . . Some Family Reasons for the Velvet Revolution

When communism was ushered into Czechoslovakia, it was supposed to last forever – yet over eleven days in November 1989, this supposedly ...

A Sociological Essay

Wortbildung im deutsch-tschechischen Wörterbuch

Writing Underground

In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machove...

Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia

Z dějin české každodennosti

The "long” 19th century, a period from the end of the 18th century through the outset of World War I, was more than a century of the birt...

Z kapitalismu do socialismu a zpět

This book from the pen of a leading Czech social scientist provides a comparison between the socialist and capitalist transformations whi...

Z tradic české kultury

Český jazyk a kultura v písňové tvorbě

Za hranice služebně

This book covers the hitherto neglected question of foreign business trips in the period of people’s democratic and later socialist Czech...

Pracovní cesty z Československa do zahraničí v letech 1945 až 1989

Za obrysy média

Similarly to other arts, literature is undoubtedly one of the „old” or „traditional” media. Nevertheless, the realization that literature...

Literatura a medialita

Záhada nemoci Karla IV.

In this collection of papers, which were previously published in journals and in books, experienced facial traumatologist Jiří Ramba pres...

Osobnosti českých dějin z perspektivy obličejové chirurgie

Záhady kolem sňatku Anny Kateřiny Šporkové

Marrying a daughter off (perhaps even against her will) in a ceremony performed by an unauthorized priest, and therefore against all chur...

Záhřmotí

This book aims to analyze the artistic use of sound instrumentation in Vladimír Holan’s poetry during the period delimited by his collect...

Hlásková instrumentace v poezii Vladimíra Holana