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
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)
358 books — 105 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekToo Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Authors Born in Czechia
6 books — 3 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Greatest Eastern European Classics
440 books — 257 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekThe Year of the Frog by Martin M. ŠimečkaThe Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika DeryThe Cunning Little Vixen by Rudolf Těsnohlídek
Czechoslovakian Authors
13 books — 11 voters


Jonathan Littell
Jeho situaci jsem mu nezáviděl: být na světě sám je někdy lepší, a ve válce obzvlášť.
Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell
Ti, kdo si trvají na jasných rozkazech nebo žádající legislativní opatření, nepochopili, že nezáleží na rozkazech, nýbrž na vůli nadřízeného, a že příjemce rozkazu tuto vůli musí dešifrovat a dokonce předjímat.
Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones

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