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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 ...more
Czech literature is divided into several main time periods: the Middle Ages; the Hussite ...more
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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
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― The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
― The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
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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
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― Slowness
― Slowness
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Štve vás, že je do našeho jazyka přeložen jen zlomek YA a ostatní literatury? Chcete si procviči…more
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