The Illuminated Burrow
Blecher Max
Max Blecher began writing The Illuminated Burrow in 1937 and continued working on it until his death...
The Maimed
Ungar Hermann
Set in Prague, The Maimed relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is e...
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
Klíma Ladislav
Philosopher, novelist, essayist, eccentric, no other Czech author has had...
The Tender Barbarian
Hrabal Bohumil
Vladimír Boudník never wanted to live as a successor to what had already occurred. He preferred inst...
The Transformations of Mr. Hadlíz
Novák Ladislav
Poetry. Art. MR. HADLIZ is a combination of poetry, prose, and art. The t...
Total Fears
Hrabal Bohumil
As Czechoslovakia's communist regime expired in 1989, Hrabal began to write after a long literary si...
Transparent Body & Other Texts
Blecher Max
Blecher's very first book, the poetry collection Transparent Body, appear...
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Nezval Vítězslav
Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism, this parable of menstr...
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...
Woman in the Plural
Nezval Vítězslav
In the summer of 1935, Vítězslav Nezval, already one of the most celebrated Czech poets of his gener...