Czech literature

O boljševizmu (1920-1921) - zabranjeni Masarik

In this edition, translated by dr. Aleksandar Ilić, there are texts of the first Czechoslovak president in which he timely criticizes Marx, Engels and Lenin, and actually goes on to criticize imperialism in general.

Ogledalo s rešetkama

"Mirror with bars" by Ivan Olbracht is a novel that deals with the themes of identity, love and social norms through the story of the life and internal conflicts of the main character, Milan. (Author's real name: Kamil Zeman.)

Pehistica

Prague. A time of denial of intellectual rights and freedoms. The time of "flight to the west" or hiding in the homeland.

Pile na ražnju

Jiří Šotola's quasi-historical novel Pile on a Spit depicts the absurdity of life through the story of the antihero – the puppeteer Matija Pile (Matěj Kuře), a puppeteer of history during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel criticizes totalitarianism through b

Prestolonasljednik

It is a historical novel that follows the life of Rudolf of Habsburg, later Emperor Rudolf II. The story takes place in the 16th century, during a time of religious and political tensions between Catholicism and Protestantism in the Austro-Hungarian lands

Preživela smrt

"Surviving Death" (1939) is a romantic-psychological novel by Czech writer, actress, and playwright Olga Scheinpflugová, completed shortly before the death of her husband, Karel Čapek, in 1938.

Priče o braku i seksu

The book contains about twenty stories connected into one whole by the main character (the writer Oskar). It is, therefore, a kind of novel that, through intimate confessions, actually talks about the loneliness of the modern intellectual.

Prva smjena

The First Shift is a novel by Čapek, first published in 1937. A novel about human courage tells about a handful of people who, in extreme conditions, must mobilize all their courage, friendship and solidarity.

Prvo šišanje

The First Haircut, a short story written in 1970 and published in 1976, is the first in a series of prose pieces by Bohumil Hrabal describing Nymburk, the town where he spent his childhood. In 1981, The First Haircut was adapted for the screen by Jiry Men

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