Czech literature

Preživela smrt

"Surviving Death" (1939) is a romantic-psychological novel by Czech writer, actress, and playwright Olga Scheinpflugová, completed shortly before the death of her husband, Karel Čapek, in 1938.

Priče o braku i seksu

The book contains about twenty stories connected into one whole by the main character (the writer Oskar). It is, therefore, a kind of novel that, through intimate confessions, actually talks about the loneliness of the modern intellectual.

Prva smjena

The First Shift is a novel by Čapek, first published in 1937. A novel about human courage tells about a handful of people who, in extreme conditions, must mobilize all their courage, friendship and solidarity.

Prvo šišanje

The First Haircut, a short story written in 1970 and published in 1976, is the first in a series of prose pieces by Bohumil Hrabal describing Nymburk, the town where he spent his childhood. In 1981, The First Haircut was adapted for the screen by Jiry Men

Ravnodušni posmatrač

Romeo, Julija i tama

In occupied Prague in 1942, the student Pavel hides the wounded Jewish woman Hana. In danger and fear, a strong love is born between them. The Gestapo discovers them, Pavel dies tortured under investigation, and Hana survives the Holocaust carrying the me

Saslušanje na daljinu: Razgovor s Karelom Hvížďalom

Havel speaks honestly and deeply about his life, his literary journey, his dissident struggle, and his moral responsibility in a totalitarian regime. An intimate autobiographical confession of a dissident facing the "remote interrogation" of the free worl

Seoski barok

Sjajne zeznute godine

The debut novel by this extremely popular Czech writer is a humorous story about growing up in communist Czechia, told from the perspective of a boy named Kvid. The first Croatian edition of the book.

Sol, ovce i kamenje

A fresh, uninhibited literary view of Dalmatia. Four stories about Dalmatia told in the manner of the best pages of Czech literature. Bringing to life the scents of salt and sea, the author writes vivid prose full of color and flavor.