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Pied Piper
For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame …
Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp
Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) 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 …
Czech Dreambook
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 …
Signs from Silence
The Royal Tombs of Ur, dating from approximately 3000-2700 BCE, are among the most famous and impressive archeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Excavated between 1922 …
Why I Write?
"e;Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity."e;-New Yorker "e;A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce …
Country House Revisited
From Howard's End to Brideshead Revisited, this book explores the leitmotif of the English country house in twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, with a focus on the works …
Minorities and Law in Czechoslovakia
Across the whole of modern Czech history-from 1918, through World War II, and into the postwar years-ethnic and minority issues have been of the utmost prominence. Moreover, …
Trial by Theatre
The motto "e;Narod sobe"e;-"e;From the Nation to Itself"e;-inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague's National Theatre symbolizes the great importance theater …
Bohumil Hrabal
Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "e;one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar …
Philosophy of Living Nature
The Philosophy of Living Nature focuses on the approach of the Western philosophical tradition to physis, or nature. Zdenek Kratochvil reveals, on a philosophical level, the roots …
Well at Morning
Springtide A chaffinch in a treeof cherry sings merrilyspring's introit. Its blazing bobble dwellsin leaves, alive, and swellsin scarlet. The flowers are flares of white.The …
Evolution Myth
The origins of life, species, and man continue to interest scientists and stir debate among the general public more than one hundred and fifty years after Charles Darwin published …