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)
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)
Čas vos
Medúzy
The Little Swiss Ski Chalet (Romantic Escapes, #7)
Srpny
Listopád
Les v domě
Svědectví o životě v KLDR 2
Ogród
Duch Pankráce
Vekslačka
Syndikát
Severka
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

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 232 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
Večer u stolu muži probírali akce, vyprávěli si historky, porovnávali si zkušenosti, někteří smutně, jiní vesele. Jiní mlčeli, a právě na ty bylo třeba dát pozor.
Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones

Nelson Mandela
Bojovník za svobodu bolestně zjišťuje, že způsob boje určuje utlačovatel a že utlačovanému často nezbývá než se uchýlit k týmž metodám, jaké používá utlačovatel. V určité chvíli zkrátka musíte nepříteli oplatit stejnou mincí.
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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