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Discover essential Czech literature in English translation, from Milan Kundera's *The Joke* to Škvorecký's *The Engineer of Human Souls*. Explore translated fiction, classics like *The Good Soldier Švejk*, and masterpieces by Jiří Weil and Gustav Meyrink—perfect for readers seeking Czech language books in English.
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The Good Soldier Svejk
Translates the iconoclastic Czech's classic satire depicting the adventures of a soldier during the First World War
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The JOKE
by Milan Kundera
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence. The present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke. For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.
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Life with a Star
by Jiří Weil
Set during the Nazi occupation of Prague, Life with a Star records the day-to-day life of Josef Roubicek, an ex-bank clerk, who discovers that the prosaic world he has always inhabited is suddenly off-limits to him because he is a Jew. "One of the most powerful works to emerge from the Holocaust; it is a fierce and necessary work of art".--The New York Times.
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The Engineer of Human Souls
by Josef Škvorecký
"So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud." Los Angeles Times Book Review
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The Golem
by Gustav Meyrink
"A favorite of connoisseurs of works of fantasy for many decades." ? St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A compelling story of mystical experiences, strange transformations, and profound terror, this is the most famous supernatural novel in modern European literature, set in Ghetto of Old Prague around 1890. 13 black-and-white illustrations. "Not to be missed." ? Los Angeles Times.
