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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Fatal Witness (Detective Erika Foster, #7)
Medúzy
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Twisted Lies (DI Kim Stone, #14)
Les v domě
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)
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Marta děti nechce
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
Too Loud a Solitude
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Closely Watched Trains
The Joke
War with the Newts
I Served the King of England
Immortality
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The Castle
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Czech Republic
81 books — 26 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaI Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Best Czech Books
161 books — 117 voters

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
1,029 books — 498 voters
Hana by Alena MornštajnováPohyby ledu by A. GravensteenŠikmý kostel by Karin LednickáVšechno je jenom dvakrát by Michal PribáňHry bez hranic by Michal Kašpárek
Contemporary Czech Literature
18 books — 6 voters


Milan Kundera
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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

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