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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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We're Still at War Stories of the 20th Century
ISBN: PB: 9788024637280, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
182 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Communist regimes of Europe collapsed more than a quarter century ago, and the Third Reich fell in World War II. However, today's rising global tide of far-right extremism makes totali...
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£25,00
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Well at Morning Selected Poems, 1925-1971
ISBN: HB: 9788024634258, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
90 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 25 colour plates, 5 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Springtide" A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit. Its blazing bobble dwells in leaves, alive, and swells in scarlet. The flowers are flares of white. The c...
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£21,00
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We Were a Handful
ISBN: PB: 9788024632858, ISBN: HB: 9788024614496, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
400 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A favorite work of Czech humor, "We Were a Handful" depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek...
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£8,99
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£22,50
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World Apart and Other Stories Czech Women around the Turn of the 19th-20th century
ISBN: PB: 9788024601663, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2001
204 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The book presents to the reader the first ever English translation of short stories, so far for no reason rather neglected, by Czech female authors at the turn of the 19th and 20th century...
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