Czechoslovakia


The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Metamorphosis
Too Loud a Solitude
HHhH
The Glass Room
The Lost Wife
Gottland
I Served the King of England
The Trial
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Good Soldier Švejk
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
The Castle
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
War with the Newts
The Golem by Gustav MeyrinkThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekI lived in the 20th century by Jaroslav Bálek
Central European Novels
47 books — 10 voters
How I Came to Know Fish by Ota PavelWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekLife is a Dream by Gyula KrúdyThe Elephant by Sławomir MrożekThe Cowards by Josef Škvorecký
Penguin Central European Classics
10 books — 11 voters

Blackshirts and Reds by Michael ParentiThe Magic Lantern by Timothy Garton AshRevolution 1989 by Victor SebestyenThe Collapse of the Soviet Union by International Communist Sem...Coward by Jaroslav Bálek
The Velvet Revolution - 1989
35 books — 6 voters
The Wall by Peter SísSomeone Named Eva by Joan M. WolfGolem by David WisniewskiThe Last Bohemians by Kit KimberlyWenceslas by Geraldine McCaughrean
Czech Republic
98 books — 27 voters

“ Europeans the Poles or Balts coming in here … we brought here knowledge with us and our culture with us, but we assimilated … assimilated is not one way, it’s a two-way street. - Fred Ritzkowski, German ”
― Peter Brune, Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66

Tomáš Garrigue-Masaryk
“ O Slovensku samostatném se nemohlo vůbec jednat vážně; zbývala by možnost, aby se stalo autonomním v Uhersku. Ani to nebylo možné podle daných okolností, a tudíž nezbávalo než sjednocení. Malí národové všichni za světové války žádali svobodu a sjenocení. Slovaci a Češi věděli, že sám jsem byl vždy pro Slovensko; svým původem a svými tradicem Slovák, cítím slovensky a pro Slovensko jsem vždy nejen horoval, ale pracoval. (..) Vím dobře jak i rusofil Vajanský, když se jednalo doopravdy, byl pro jed ...more ”
― Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Světová revoluce za války a ve válce 1914-1918

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