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)
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Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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I Served the King of England
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The Czech Republic in English
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Greatest Eastern European Classics
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Miroslav Holub
[...] And Faust knows that he will not speak of it, and if so only by a comma, only by a word in a big new book. It is really something like a coat of grey fur over the soul, like the uniform the unknown soldier wears inside him. And so he goes and starts a painting, or a gay little song, or a big new book. Nothing has happened but we always saw if coming All in all India ink is the blood's first sister and song is just as final as life and death and equally without allegory, without transcenden ...more
Miroslav Holub, Selected Poems

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Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. ...more
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