When Bichette, the eponymous Tigress and uncrowned queen of Paris prostitutes, meets the grifter ...

Visions & Apparitions

Prague Triptych

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'...

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

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...

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

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

Max Blecher began writing The Illuminated Burrow in 1937 and continued working on it until his de...

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...

An inveterate experimenter with image and text and music whose work bears the clear influences of...

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...

Awarded the Czechoslovak State Prize for Literature in 1936, The Arsonist explores the world of y...

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...

By spring 1938, Prague is a city increasingly on tenterhooks in expectation of an attack by Nazi ...

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

Awarded the Magnesia Litera Prose Book of the Year in 2013, CEILINGS is a polyphonic novel kin to...

Because we shouldn't believe in nations, because we have forsaken our traditions or our tradition...

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

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...

Collected here and translated into English for the first time are some of most renowned Bohemian ...

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

Originally published in 1945 in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French...

Unable to publish in communist Czechoslovakia, Jiří Kolař saw Responses first appear in 1984 with...

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

Like Kurt Schwitters before him, Gerhard Ruhm has incorporated numerals and digits into his visua...

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...