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...
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...
I Burn Paris (brož.)
Jasieński Bruno
I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland's most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since its i...
Aberrant
Šindelka Marek
The remarkable debut novel from Marek Šindelka, already the recipient of his country's major literar...
Others' Paradise
Leppin Paul
Toward the end of his life Leppin wrote: "Prague remains my deepest experience. Its conflict, its my...
Absolute Gravedigger
Nezval Vítězslav
The Absolute Gravedigger, published in 1937, is in many ways the culmination of Vítězslav Nezval's w...
Marketa Lazarová (ang.)
Vančura Vladislav
Medieval Bohemia, the petty nobility nothing more than highwaymen, literally robber barons, and the ...
Gothic Soul
Karásek ze Lvovic Jiří
A Gothic Soul is the most acclaimed work of Czech Decadent prose. Expressing concerns that are uniqu...
Legs of Izolda Morgan
Jasieński Bruno
Considered the enfant terrible of the Polish avant-garde, lauded by critics and scorned by the publi...