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Velvet Revolution 30 Years After
ISBN: PB: 9788024644486, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
144 pp., 26x20.3 cm, 83 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia from November to December 1989, this book gathers dissident academics, a student l...
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£24,00
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Why I Write? The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952
ISBN: HB: 9788024642680, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Marechal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing". Taken...
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£15,00
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Writing Underground Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788024641256, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the undergro...
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£15,00
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Philosophy en noir
ISBN: PB: 9788024638539, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reason postwar philosophical texts are so difficult to u...
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£15,00
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Art Nouveau Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788024642932, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
200 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 158 colour plates, 10 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Prague has become one of Europe's – and the world's – most popular tourist destinations. As in London, Paris, and Rome, visitors flock to th...
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£23,00
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In Quest of History On Czech Statehood and Identity
ISBN: PB: 9788024642673, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jiri Priban and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvizdala took the opportunity to examine key moments in Czech...
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£15,00
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Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting
ISBN: HB: 9788024642697, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 26x23.4 cm, 125 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life – from his early year...
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£34,00
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Bohumil Hrabal A Full-Length Portrait
ISBN: PB: 9788024639093, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
130 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 32 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover o...
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£12,00
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Czech Dreambook
ISBN: PB: 9788024638522, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! It's 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvik Vaculik has writer's block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powe...
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£21,00
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Making the Most of Tomorrow A North Bohemian Laboratory of Socialist Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9788024640174, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2019
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to redevelop the city began, hope and expecta...
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£20,00
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