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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Lethal Vengeance (Detective Erika Foster, #8)
Fatal Witness (Detective Erika Foster, #7)
Twisted Lies (DI Kim Stone, #14)
Vona
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)
Döden går på visning
Srpny
Medúzy
Výšina
The Little Swiss Ski Chalet (Romantic Escapes, #7)
Listopád
Svědectví o životě v KLDR 2
Sudety: Ztracený ráj
Čas vos
Vekslačka
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
War with the Newts
The Joke
I Served the King of England
Immortality
R.U.R.
The Castle
Laughable Loves
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorite Translated Literature
1,061 books — 507 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
378 books — 121 voters

Diagrame by Saşa PanăDay Equals Night by Valeria NarbikovaAlbin Brunovsky by Albín BrunovskýKleine Vera by Marija ChmelikUkrainian Futurism, 1914–1930 by Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj
Bulge Area
104 books — 2 voters
How I Came to Know Fish by Ota PavelWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekThe Elephant by Sławomir MrożekLife is a Dream by Gyula KrúdyThe Cowards by Josef Škvorecký
Penguin Central European Classics
10 books — 11 voters


Jonas Jonasson
Bitva o Stalingrad byla pro Stalina, mírně řečeno, osobní záležitostí.
Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Jonathan Littell
„A co jsi cítil, když jsi ty lidi zabíjel?“ Bez váhání jsem odpověděl: „Totéž, jako když jsem se díval, jak střílejí ostatní. Jakmile je potřeba to udělat, je jedno, kdo to dělá. A mimoto si myslím, že ten, kdo se dívá, má stejnou zodpovědnost jako ten, kdo koná.
Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones

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