Czech Literature

Czech literature is the literature written by Czechs or other inhabitants of the Czech state, mostly in the Czech language, although other languages like Old Church Slavonic, Latin or German have been also used, especially in the past. Modern authors from the Czech territory who wrote in other languages (e.g. German) are however sometimes considered separately, thus Franz Kafka, for example, who wrote in German (though he was also fluent in Czech), is often considered part of Austrian or German literature.
Czech literature is divided into several main time periods: the Middle Ages; the Hussite
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Fatal Witness (Detective Erika Foster, #7)
Medúzy
The Little Swiss Ski Chalet (Romantic Escapes, #7)
Twisted Lies (DI Kim Stone, #14)
Svědectví o životě v KLDR 2
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)
Srpny
Čas vos
Les v domě
Letnice
Rozložíš paměť
Listopád
Ogród
Sudety: Ztracený ráj
O hvězdách víš hovno
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
Too Loud a Solitude
The Good Soldier Švejk
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Closely Watched Trains
War with the Newts
The Joke
I Served the King of England
Immortality
R.U.R.
The Castle
Laughable Loves
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Book Mentioned Books
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Bulge Area
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Prague Tales by Jan NerudaPrague Spring by Simon MawerLife with a Star by Jiří WeilThe Alchemist's Door by Lisa GoldsteinPrague Noir by Pavel Mandys
The Czech Republic in English
56 books — 5 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyMilena by Olja KnezevicThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovI Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Best Novels from Eastern Europe
198 books — 84 voters


Nelson Mandela
Muž by měl mít dům poblíž svého rodiště, kde by našel klid, který jinde postrádá.
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

Jaroslav Dušek
„Štěstí je stav, ve kterém člověk dělá to co miluje a miluje to co dělá. Tudíž to co dělá je pro něj odměnou. To znamená, že pokud se ti daří dělat to co miluješ a milovat co děláš, potom pociťuješ štěstí.
Jaroslav Dušek

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