Vojtěch Bažant — Jaroslav Svátek (eds.)   This book discusses travelogues that were copied, read or written in the Czech lands during the 14th and 15th centuries. It first analyses their narrative strategies, focalisation, reader definitions and constructed images of „others“, and then proceeds to examine in detail the surviving manuscripts, their specific characteristics and […]

Josef Vojvodík Josef Vojvodík deals in this book with poems written in exceptional states and under exceptional circumstances: in totalitarian state prisons or as a reflection of the prison experience (Konečný, Kostohryz, Renč), in psychiatric hospitals (in the case of clinical psychologist Zbyněk Havlíček), and in exile (Diviš). From the very onset, however, the author […]

Antonín Policar   Kniha se zabývá estetickými úvahami Karla Heinricha Heydenreicha (1764–1801), vlivného německého filosofa pozdního osvícenství, se záměrem ukázat, jak se v jeho pojetí estetika – ve středoevropském prostoru tradičně ukotvená filosofická disciplína – na konci osmdesátých let 18. století vyrovnávala s novými výzvami souvisejícími s nástupem transcendentální filosofie Immanuela Kanta. Kromě analýzy různorodých strategií, […]

Jakub Rákosník, Jakub Vrba, Bohumil Melichar, Martin Dolejský (eds.) This critical edition brings together 94 texts published in the press of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia between 1921 and 1938. It is a selection from thousands of articles that appeared on the pages of hundreds of titles during the period under review, whose periodicity varied […]

Vojtěch Kinter This book examines the relationship between the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ladislav Klíma. The author is critical of Klíma’s popular label “Czech Nietzsche” which is at least conceptually anchored in scientific discourse about Klíma and explicitly used in a broader context. By criticizing the label, the author explores the extent of Nietzsche’s influence on Klíma […]

Matěj Klíma The monograph deals with the reception of Ladislav Klíma’s work and personality in Czech culture. It is divided into four sections. In the first one we focus on the reactions to his work during his lifetime. In addition to the reflection on the plays and published books, we also follow small magazine polemics […]

Olga Nádvorníková This book investigates the Czech transgressive, a non-finite verb form, which belongs to the converb category, as a potential linguistic indicator of normalisation and interference in translation. In this research we treat normalisation as a T-universal, i.e. as the difference between translated and non-translated texts in the same language (Czech), and we define […]

Siao Chung In “Stories from the Hulan River,” Chinese prose writer Xiao Hong (1911–1942) returns to the time of her childhood, which she spent in the town of Hulan in northeastern China. Xiao Hong died at the age of only thirty-one, but during her short life, she managed to write a number of remarkable works, […]

Konstantinos Tsivos This study traces the development of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) between the end of World War II and 1956. Special attention is paid to the period after the military defeat of the KKE in Greece (1949), which led to the relocation of KKE’s leadership and its core members to socialist exile. […]

The book is a Czech translation of more than ninety old Korean tales originally included in the Cheonggu yadam (Tales from the Green Hills), which is a collection of orally transmitted stories compiled and edited by anonymous writers in the 19th century Joseon kingdom (1392–1910). The stories are often strange and weird with a lot […]