Country Doctor
Kafka Franz
A Country Doctor is the third such volume of Kafka's stories published by Prague's Twisted Spoon Pre...
Gothic Soul
Karásek ze Lvovic Jiří
A Gothic Soul is the most acclaimed work of Czech Decadent prose. Expressing concerns that are uniqu...
Glorious Nemesis
Klíma Ladislav
Klima's intense inner life and complex mental state is reflected in his peculiar writings. The eccen...
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
Klíma Ladislav
Philosopher, novelist, essayist, eccentric, no other Czech author has had...
A Postmortem Dream
Klíma Ladislav - Růt Pavel (il.)
One of Ladislav Klíma's most famous ghost stories, A Postmortem Dream is an unfinished novella about...
A User´s Manual
Kolář Jiří
Written in the 1950s and '60s, the "action poems" comprising a A User's Manual were published in the...
Responses. Kafka´s Prague
Kolář Jiří
Unable to publish in communist Czechoslovakia, Jiří Kolář saw Responses first appear in 1984 with th...
Severin's Journey into the Dark
Leppin Paul
Leppin once wrote: "Prague remains my deepest experience. Its conflicts, ...
Others' Paradise
Leppin Paul
Toward the end of his life Leppin wrote: "Prague remains my deepest experience. Its conflict, its my...
May
Mácha Karel Hynek
Often compared to Byron, Keats, Shelley, and Poe, Mácha was the greatest Czech Romantic poet, and th...
The Diary of Mr. Pinke
Murrer Ewald
The Diary of Mr. Pinke is poet Ewald Murrer's first, and most renowned, full-length work of prose. W...
A Lovely Tale of Photography
Nádas Péter
Peter Nadas is one of the most renowned contemporary Hungarian authors. A Lovely Tale of Photography...
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Nezval Vítězslav
Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism, this parable of menstr...
Woman in the Plural
Nezval Vítězslav
In the summer of 1935, Vítězslav Nezval, already one of the most celebrated Czech poets of his gener...
Absolute Gravedigger
Nezval Vítězslav
The Absolute Gravedigger, published in 1937, is in many ways the culmination of Vítězslav Nezval's w...