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Fiction

God's Rainbow

Durych Jaroslav

ISBN: HB: 9788024632919, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
140 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 15 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neither directly commit nor have the power to p...

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Fiction

Cremator

Fuks Ladislav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632902, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
180 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist" – Giovanni Papini. It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of an...

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Fiction

Saturnin

Jirotka Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024632889, ISBN: HB: 9788024606835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
263 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected – if temporary – reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation....

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Literary Criticism

Horror and a Beauty The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels

Chalupsky Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024631615, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
302 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London – its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through w...

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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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Fiction

Midway on Our Life's Journey

Jedlicka Josef

ISBN: HB: 9788024631271, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
150 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, "Midway on Our Life's Journey" flew in the face of the reigning aesth...

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Literary Criticism

Beyond Decadence Exposing the Narrative Irony in Jan Opolsky's Prose

Butler Peter

ISBN: PB: 9788024625713, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
300 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 4 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Opolsky has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. Through close reading and detailed analysis of Opolsky's prose, however, Peter...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric in European and World Culture

Kraus Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024622156, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Rhetoric in European and World Culture" traces the position of rhetoric in cultural and educational systems from ancient times to the present. Here, Jiri Kraus examines rhetoric's decline...

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Fiction

Of Mice and Mooshaber

Fuks Ladislav

ISBN: HB: 9788024622163, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2014
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Ladislav Fuks (1923-1994) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psychological fiction, explores themes of anxiety and life in totalitarian systems. Fuks is be...

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