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...
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...
Edition 69
Halas František - Nezval Vítězslav
Launched in 1931 by Jindřich Štyrský, Edition 69 consisted of six volumes of erotic literature and i...
Last Loosening
Serner Walter
A cofounder of Dada and its enfant terrible, Walter Serner was a brilliant observer of society — his...
The Tender Barbarian
Hrabal Bohumil
Vladimír Boudník never wanted to live as a successor to what had already occurred. He preferred inst...
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...
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
Klíma Ladislav
Philosopher, novelist, essayist, eccentric, no other Czech author has had...
Aviaries
Brabcová Zuzana
Aviaries is a novella composed of random diary entries, vignettes, dreams, observations, interior mo...
Dreamverse
Štýrský Jindřich
Published posthumously as Dreams, Štyrský's dream journal spanning the interwar years comprises pros...
Narcotics
Witkiewicz Stanislaw Ignacy
Meandering, caustic, and humorous, Witkacy dissects society and the art world via the hypocrisy surr...