All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now though, a quarter century after The Joke was first published, and several …
Adam a Sára, dlouholetí partneři, najdou během nočního návratu domů podivného tvora a rozhodnou se, že ho odnesou do chaty po babičce a druhý den zavolají veterináře. Chata se nachází ve Stepi, části …
Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then was subsequently banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the c…
A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they had chosen to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their…
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her …
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The r…
Útlá knížka, jejímž jádrem je staroněmecká pověst, je vrcholem autorova prozaického díla, jakousi rekapitulací jeho myšlenek a postulátů. Věčným tématem je zde svár reality s ideálem, kterého je ale t…
