A Prague Flaneur
Nezval Vítězslav
By spring 1938, Prague is a city increasingly on tenterhooks in expectation of an attack by Nazi Ger...
The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks
Taborska Agnieszka
Phoebe Hicks owes her unexpected career as a spiritualist to a photograph...
On the Needles of These Days
Heisler Jindřich - Štyrský Jindřich
Combining visual artist Jindřich Štyrský's photographs from the 1930s with an extended prose poem by...
Cake & Prostheses. Minidramas and short prose
Rühm Gerhard
An inveterate experimenter with image and text and music, Gerhard Rühm is...
Transparent Body & Other Texts
Blecher Max
Blecher's very first book, the poetry collection Transparent Body, appear...
Baradla Cave
Švankmajerová Eva
Baradla Cave is a novel by the Czech Surrealist Eva Švankmajerová, who is perhaps best known for her...
Waiting for the Dog to Sleep
Ficowski Jerzy
Waiting for the Dog to Sleep is poet, translator, and scholar Jerzy Ficowski's only collection of pr...
A Lovely Tale of Photography
Nádas Péter
Peter Nadas is one of the most renowned contemporary Hungarian authors. A Lovely Tale of Photography...
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...
The Illuminated Burrow
Blecher Max
Max Blecher began writing The Illuminated Burrow in 1937 and continued working on it until his death...
House of the Nine Devils
Urzidil Johannes
Collected here and translated into English for the first time are some of the most renowned Bohemia...
Responses. Kafka´s Prague
Kolář Jiří
Unable to publish in communist Czechoslovakia, Jiří Kolář saw Responses first appear in 1984 with th...
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...
Woman in the Plural
Nezval Vítězslav
In the summer of 1935, Vítězslav Nezval, already one of the most celebrated Czech poets of his gener...