Czech literature

Igra vatrom

Inženjer ljudskih duša

A masterpiece of Czech literature that has become a world classic. This partly autobiographical novel, told through the eyes of Daniel Smiricky, a Czech writer in Canadian exile, combines ironic humor, nostalgic warmth, and sharp criticism of totalitarian

Kako što nastaje: novine, film, teatar

In a witty and instructive essay, Čapek describes how a newspaper, a film, and a theater play are created. Through humor and irony, he shows the complexity of the process – from idea to realization – and the different perspectives of the participants, dem

Knjiga smijeha i zaborava

The novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetfulness (1979), a fragmentary novel in seven parts, explores Czech history under the communist regime, particularly after the 1968 Prague Spring and the Soviet invasion.

Ljepuškasta djeca

The novel Beautiful Children depicts the world of adolescent rebels in a "re-education" colony - a prison disguised as a school. Written in the spirit of the Prague Spring, the work criticizes the communist system through a dynamic, cinematic narrative.

O boljševizmu (1920-1921) - zabranjeni Masarik

In this edition, translated by dr. Aleksandar Ilić, there are texts of the first Czechoslovak president in which he timely criticizes Marx, Engels and Lenin, and actually goes on to criticize imperialism in general.

Ogledalo s rešetkama

"Mirror with bars" by Ivan Olbracht is a novel that deals with the themes of identity, love and social norms through the story of the life and internal conflicts of the main character, Milan. (Author's real name: Kamil Zeman.)

Pehistica

Prague. A time of denial of intellectual rights and freedoms. The time of "flight to the west" or hiding in the homeland.

Pile na ražnju

Jiří Šotola's quasi-historical novel Pile on a Spit depicts the absurdity of life through the story of the antihero – the puppeteer Matija Pile (Matěj Kuře), a puppeteer of history during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel criticizes totalitarianism through b

Prebučna samoća

Loud Loneliness (1976), a novel by Bohumil Hrabal, is an introspective monologue by Hant'a, an old worker at a paper collection center in Prague, who has been pressing waste paper and books into packages with a hydraulic press for 35 years, calling it his