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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Twisted Lies (DI Kim Stone, #14)
Ogród
Fatal Witness (Detective Erika Foster, #7)
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)
Srpny
Medúzy
Svědectví o životě v KLDR 2
The Little Swiss Ski Chalet (Romantic Escapes, #7)
O hvězdách víš hovno
Listopád
Les v domě
Úlice
Čas vos
Vyhoření
Základna (Atomové šelmy, #1)
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
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
366 books — 108 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekThe Year of the Frog by Martin M. ŠimečkaThe Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika DeryThe Cunning Little Vixen by Rudolf Těsnohlídek
Czechoslovakian Authors
13 books — 11 voters

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
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 232 voters



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