Vítejte readers,
This is our weekly discussion of the literature of the world! Every Wednesday, we’ll post a new country or culture for you to recommend literature from, with the caveat that it must have been written by someone from that country (i.e. Shogun by James Clavell is a great book but wouldn’t be included in Japanese literature).
September 28 is Czech Statehood Day and feast day of St. Wenceslaus and to celebrate we’re discussing Czech literature! Please use this thread to discuss your favorite Czech books and authors.
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Děkuji and enjoy!
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Today we die a little. Biography of Zatopek!
The biography of one of the kindest man and greatest runner is intertwined with Czech history.
Loved it
Karol Čapek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots popularized the term robot as a stand in for an autonomous machine. His brother Josef Čapek is the one who actually created the term, and was a great artist in his own right.
Milan Kundera with Immortality was a great book. Sadly Kundera died a few days ago.
Of the Czech books I’ve read, the ones I know with no doubt I’ll read again are *The Golden Age* bby Michal Avjaz and *The Transformations of Mr Hadliz* by Ladislav Novak, both of them wonderful.
The publisher Twisted Spoon is very much worth browsing for its catalogue of central/east European works including, naturally, ones by Czech writers.
Bohumil hrabal has been reissued recently by penguin classics. All my cats is a favourite as is the town where time stood still
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek