Published posthumously as Dreams, Styrský's dream journal spanning the interwar years comprises ...

Written in the 1950s and '60s, the 'action poems' comprising a A User's Manual were published in ...

A novel and texts by Bohumil Hrabal about the graphic artist Vladimir Boudnik, including Boudnik'...

Originally published in 1945 by Les ditions de l'Oubli in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught t...

The novel Baradla Cave has lost none of the force of its social critique and trenchant humor sinc...

Poetry. Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter. Nichita Danilov (b. 1952) places himself in ...

Toward the end of his life Leppin wrote: 'Prague remains my deepest experience. Its conflict, its...

Poetry. Art. MR. HADLIZ is a combination of poetry, prose, and art. The twelve pictures that form...

Cultural Writing. Translation. Translated from the Czech and Slovak by Gerald Turner. Foreword by...

A cofounder of Dada and its enfant terrible, Walter Serner, whose demeanor has been called 'a dan...

Fiction. Translated from the Polish by Soren Gauger and Marcin Piekoszewski. Born in 1924 in Wars...

Fiction. A sculptor dying of a mysterious illness leaves the city behind in order to live out his...

Launched in 1931 by Jindřich Styrský, Edition 69 consisted of six volumes of erotic literature an...

Considered the enfant terrible of the Polish avant-garde, lauded by critics and scorned by the pu...

Regarded as 'abnormal,' or a 'bastard species' in Romania, the non-genre of prose poetry has prod...

In these letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil...

In the summer of 1935, Vitezslav Nezval, already one of the most celebrated Czech poets of his ge...

In the vein of the well-known drug writings of De Quincey and Baudelaire from a century earlier a...

Often compared to Byron, Keats, Shelley, and Poe, called Lautreamont's ''elder brother'' by the C...

Medieval Bohemia, the petty nobility nothing more than highwaymen, literally robber barons, and t...

A novella composed of diary entries, interior monologue content and dream-like vignettes, depicti...

Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her W...

'I, City' is many things: a novel-in-stories, a series of prose sketches in the tradition of Dani...

In Europe, taking a walk is a cultural phenomenon having an almost mystical import. It connects p...

Called 'the Czech Cioran' by Andrei Codrescu, Róbert Gál is one of the freshest voices to come fr...

Erben compiled and wrote A Bouquet based on his studies of Slavic folklore. First published in 18...

Boys & Murderers is the first collection of novellas and stories in English translation from Herm...

Poetry. Sandor Kanyadi is from a small ethnic Hungarian village in Transylvania. He has lived his...

Fiction. Joshua Cohen has performed in-depth investigations into mirrors and navels to return wit...

Fiction. JUNKIE LOVE, set in Camden Town, London, during the late 1980s, is a study of addiction ...

Contemplation, Kafka's first published book (1913), was one of the few to appear in his lifetime....

Poetry. Tomaz Salamun is perhaps the most popular and prolific poet in Central Europe today. Than...

A Gothic Soul is the most acclaimed work of Czech Decadent prose. Expressing concerns that are un...

Aquamarine, a fluid like water, is a compound of two elements: language and imagery flowing over ...

A village in the Carpathian Mountains, one of the last outposts of pre-modernity, an elderly man,...

A communal apartment in late Soviet-era Moscow. An elderly tenant - the daughter of the apartment...

The Absolute Gravedigger, published in 1937, is in many ways the culmination of Va-tÄ zslav Nezva...

Fiction. Revised edition. Translated from the German by Kevin Blahut. Frontispiece by Richard Tes...

Fiction. Few Polish prose writers of the past ten years have attracted as much delight and bewild...

Composed between 1993 and 1997, Seances is the first full-length collection of poetry from Sydney...

Fiction. Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. An enquiry into the nature of eroticism...

Philosopher, novelist, essayist, eccentric, no other Czech author has had a greater impact on und...

The remarkable debut novel from Marek Sindelka, Aberrant is a multifaceted work that mixes and ma...

Fiction. Translation. Hermann Ungar (1893-1929) was born to a prominent Jewish family in Boskovic...

Fiction. Soren A. Gauger's first collection of short stories was entirely written in Krakow, Pola...

I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland's most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since it...

Fiction. Peter Nadas, born in 1942 in Budapest, is the author of A BOOK OF MEMORIES and THE END O...

A novella from the classic Czech novelist, set in the Tyrol.