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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Twisted Lies (DI Kim Stone, #14)
Fatal Witness (Detective Erika Foster, #7)
Lethal Vengeance (Detective Erika Foster, #8)
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)
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The Little Swiss Ski Chalet (Romantic Escapes, #7)
Döden går på visning
Vona
Les v domě
Výšina
Čas vos
Svědectví o životě v KLDR 2
Mariborská hypnóza
Medúzy
Zlá babička
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
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
Amor Amaro beendet die diXXda©-Verschwörung by Marco ToccatoDer Esel Cosidesimo by Bettina    WeberSingen tut gut! by Bettina    WeberTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Book Mentioned Books
156 books — 41 voters

Prague Tales by Jan NerudaPrague Spring by Simon MawerLife with a Star by Jiří WeilThe Alchemist's Door by Lisa GoldsteinPrague Noir by Pavel Mandys
The Czech Republic in English
56 books — 5 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekThe Trial by Franz KafkaCoward by Jaroslav BálekCoward by Jaroslav Bálek
Authors Born in Czechia
20 books — 5 voters


Jonas Jonasson
Zpocenému muži bylo kolem pětadvaceti let a neměl sebemenší ctižádost byť i jen o chlup zestárnout. V jeho nitru se všechno bouřilo. Ne proti tomu, že polovina obyvatelstva jeho země byla bez práce, ne proti tomu, že skoro každý pátý občan měl HIV nebo AIDS, ne proti beznadějnému nedostatku pitné vody, ne proti tomu, že se přes zemi šířila poušť, která požírala chudou ornou půdu. Kdepak, toho muže pobuřovalo, že si USA v jeho zemi zřídily vojenské zaří ...more
Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Milan Kundera
What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to f ...more
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