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Poetry

Poetry in Exile Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition

Hrdlicka Josef

ISBN: PB: 9788024646572, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlicka – one of the Czech Republic's foremost experts on lyric poetry – examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlicka a...

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Poetry

Swale

Hutchcraft Allison

ISBN: PB: 9781936970681, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection is named for a "swale", a shallow channel used to direct the flow of rainwater. Similarly, Swale looks outward to the natural world and directs its focus inward to the land...

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Fiction

Why I Write? The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952

Hrabal Bohumil

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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Christianity

Europe

Atlas of Religions in Czechia

Havlicek Tomas, Klingorova Kamila, Lysak Jakub

ISBN: HB: 9788024637945, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2018
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...

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Linguistics

Syntax-Semantics Interface

Hajicova Eva

ISBN: PB: 9788024637143, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Syntax-Semantics Interface" is a collection of papers written by leading Czech linguist Eva Hajicova between 1973 and 2014 that draw on the theoretical framework of the functional generat...

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Fiction

Behind the Lines Bugulma and Other Tales

Hasek Jaroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632872, ISBN: HB: 9788024620138, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2016
224 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 38 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read yet incomplete novel "The Good Soldier Schweik", a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant WWI s...

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Fiction

Rambling On An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Hrabal Bohumil

ISBN: PB: 9788024632865, ISBN: HB: 9788024623160, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
230 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point...

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Poetry

Book of Fans

Honcoopova Helena, Mostow Joshua, Yasuhara Makoto

ISBN: HB: 9788024625188, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
180 pp., 28.4x22.8 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The National Gallery in Prague has in its collection a unique Japanese illustrated manuscript of ogi no soshi, a genre of waka poems illustrated in fan-shaped pictures, which blossomed fro...

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Photography

Pavel Dias, Photographs 1956-2015

Havel Jan, Lab Filip

ISBN: PB: 9788024630175, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
258 pp., 29.2x19 cm, 180 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Pavel Dias's work forms one of the touchstones of Czech journalistic and documentary photography. Working at a time when the stiffness of form and content called for by Soviet ideology was...

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Europe

Czechs and Germans 1848-2004 The Sudeten Question and the Transformation of Central Europe

Houzvicka Vaclav

ISBN: PB: 9788024621449, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2015
450 pp., 24.1x17.5 cm, 15 halftones, 3 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "Czechs and Germans 1848-2004", Vaclav Houzvicka describes the development of the Czech-German national controversies from the mid-nineteenth century through the establishing of the Cze...

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