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Poetry in Exile Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition
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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£20,00
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End of the World Poetry and Prose
ISBN: PB: 9788024645278, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet "Magor" (which translates roughly to "fool" or "madman"), Ivan Jirous was one of the most significant figures in t...
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£20,00
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Lamentation for 77,297 Victims
ISBN: PB: 9788024645339, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
85 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Smoke from nearby factories shrouds a countryside as flat as a table, a countryside stretching off to infinity. Covering it are the ashes of millions of dead. Scattered throughout are fin...
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£10,00
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Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel
ISBN: PB: 9788024645322, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska's Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition, an international success upon its publication in 1816 that is now widely co...
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£16,00
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Swale
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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£13,00
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Shop on Main Street
ISBN: PB: 9788024640228, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
150 pp., 19x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, "The Shop on Main Street" is the story that inspired the highly successful Academy Award-winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking...
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£9,00
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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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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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