Czech Literature

Czech literature is the literature written by Czechs or other inhabitants of the Czech state, mostly in the Czech language, although other languages like Old Church Slavonic, Latin or German have been also used, especially in the past. Modern authors from the Czech territory who wrote in other languages (e.g. German) are however sometimes considered separately, thus Franz Kafka, for example, who wrote in German (though he was also fluent in Czech), is often considered part of Austrian or German literature.
Czech literature is divided into several main time periods: the Middle Ages; the Hussite
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The Little Swiss Ski Chalet (Romantic Escapes, #7)
Zasněžený polibek
Čas vos
Svědectví o životě v KLDR 2
Fatal Witness (Detective Erika Foster, #7)
Medúzy
Boże Narodzenie w Pradze
Twisted Lies (DI Kim Stone, #14)
Les v domě
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)
Listopád
Úlice
Marta děti nechce
O hvězdách víš hovno
Srpny
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
Too Loud a Solitude
The Good Soldier Švejk
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Closely Watched Trains
The Joke
War with the Newts
I Served the King of England
Immortality
R.U.R.
The Castle
Laughable Loves

W.H. Auden
If there ever was a man of whom it could be said that he ‘hungered and thirsted after righteousness,’ it was Kafka.
W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

Viktor Dyk
Nejmenuji se; jsem nikdo. Jsem hůř než nikdo, jsem krysař.
Viktor Dyk, Krysař

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