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)
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)
Dead Memories (D.I. Kim Stone, #10)
Dying Truth (D.I. Kim Stone, #8)
Deadly Cry (DI Kim Stone #13)
Les v domě
Child's Play (DI Kim Stone #11)
The Little Swiss Ski Chalet (Romantic Escapes, #7)
Fatal Promise (D.I. Kim Stone, #9)
Killing Mind (D.I. Kim Stone #12)
Aristokratka a vlna zločinnosti na zámku Kostka (Aristokratka, #4)
Hlas kukačky
Truly (In Love #1)
Indians on Vacation
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
Too Loud a Solitude
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Good Soldier Švejk
The Joke
Closely Watched Trains
War with the Newts
I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)
Immortality
R.U.R.
The Castle
Laughable Loves
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Favorite Translated Literature
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Czech Republic
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Ladislav Fuks
Násilí se nikomu nevyplácí. S tím se může vystačit jen krátkou dobu, ale dějiny se jím psát nedají. žijeme v civilizovaném světě, v Evropě, ve dvacátém století
Ladislav Fuks, Spalovač mrtvol

Jonathan Littell
„A co jsi cítil, když jsi ty lidi zabíjel?“ Bez váhání jsem odpověděl: „Totéž, jako když jsem se díval, jak střílejí ostatní. Jakmile je potřeba to udělat, je jedno, kdo to dělá. A mimoto si myslím, že ten, kdo se dívá, má stejnou zodpovědnost jako ten, kdo koná.
Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones

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