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• PoetrySláva's DaughterSlávy dceraJán Kollár · 1824A cycle of sonnets in which a journey through the Germanised Slavic lands merges with the love of a woman.Literature
• PoetryMayMájKarel Hynek Mácha · 1836A poem in four cantos in which the nature of the month of May surrounds the last night of a condemned man.Literature
• PoetryA Bouquet of Czech FolktalesKytice z pověstí národníchKarel Jaromír Erben · 1853Ballads drawn from folk legends, in which every fault calls for a punishment.Literature
• NovelThe GrandmotherBabičkaBožena Němcová · 1855A year of country life seen through a grandmother and her grandchildren, in the north-east of Bohemia.Literature
• PoetryTyrolean ElegiesTyrolské elegieKarel Havlíček Borovský · 1860A journalist deported without trial recounts in verse his arrest at night and the road that takes him to the Tyrol.Literature
• NovelKříž u potokaKarolina Světlá · 1868not translated into EnglishA village novel in which an educated young woman marries the heir of a cursed family, set in the farms at the foot of the Ještěd.Literature
• Short storiesPrague TalesPovídky malostranskéJan Neruda · 1878Thirteen stories about the inhabitants of a Prague district at the foot of the castle, observed by one of their own.Literature
• PoetryZlomky epopejeJaroslav Vrchlický · 1886not translated into EnglishNarrative poems arranged in the order of the centuries, from the oldest myths to the time of their author.Literature
• TaleOld Czech LegendsStaré pověsti českéAlois Jirásek · 1894A continuous retelling of the legends of a people, from its first ancestor to the prophecies about its future.Literature
• PoetryPo nás ať přijde potopa!František Gellner · 1901not translated into EnglishCabaret and night poems, written against bourgeois respectability at the turn of the century.Literature
• PoetrySilesian SongsSlezské písněPetr Bezruč · 1909Poems of revolt for a region of mines and forests, where the masters and two foreign languages crush a population.Literature
• NovelThe Pied PiperKrysařViktor Dyk · 1911A town infested with rats, a stranger who drives them out, and a story of love and disillusionment.Literature
• NarrativeHrad smrtiJakub Deml · 1912not translated into EnglishA series of funereal visions presented as the found manuscript of an unknown man.Literature
• NovelThe Good Soldier ŠvejkOsudy dobrého vojáka ŠvejkaJaroslav Hašek · 1921A simpleton, or one who seems to be, goes through the Great War by obeying too well.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreThe Camel Through the Needle's EyeVelbloud uchem jehlyFrantišek Langer · 1923A comedy of the encounter between a rich man's son and the world of the poor.Literature
• NovelThe TrialDer ProzessFranz Kafka · 1925A clerk arrested for no reason searches in vain for the court that is trying him.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Descent of the IdolBlouděníJaroslav Durych · 1929A Protestant rebel and a young Catholic woman search for each other through the years of war and forced conversions.Literature
• PoetryNový IkarosKonstantin Biebl · 1929not translated into EnglishA poem in a single flow, in which the tropics, war and childhood return by association.Literature
• Short storiesLazebníkRichard Weiner · 1929not translated into EnglishFive prose pieces in which dream, doubt and the identity of beings elude the reader.Literature
• CinemaC. a k. polní maršálekKarel Lamač · 1930A military comedy of mistaken identities in a garrison of the Imperial and Royal army.Cinema
• NovelMarketa LazarováMarkéta LazarováVladislav Vančura · 1931Two clans of brigands and two love stories, in the time of the marauding knights, which the author does not date.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaEcstasyExtaseGustav Machatý · 1933A young woman in an unhappy marriage discovers desire with a young engineer.Cinema
• CinemaThe RiverŘekaJosef Rovenský · 1933A summer beside a Bohemian river: two fourteen-year-olds and a pike to catch.Cinema
• PoetryStaré ženyFrantišek Halas · 1935not translated into EnglishA litany on the old age of women, made of pity and of the approach of death.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelHranice stínuJan Čep · 1935not translated into EnglishThe return of an uprooted man to the village of his childhood, in the Moravia of the interwar years.Literature
• NovelWar with the NewtsVálka s mlokyKarel Čapek · 1935A satire of the Europe of the thirties, through a species that is discovered, exploited, and then goes to war with humans.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryPrague with Fingers of RainPraha s prsty deštěVítězslav Nezval · 1936Surrealist poems of a capital explored on foot, district by district.Literature
• CinemaGrandmotherBabičkaFrantišek Čáp · 1940A wise old woman and her family in the countryside, filmed under the protectorate.Cinema
• PoetryMelancholické procházkyIvan Blatný · 1941Elegies of a provincial town and its outskirts, walked on foot by a very young poet.Literature
• TheatreBrundibárAdolf Hoffmeister · 1942An opera for children in which two penniless little ones confront the musician who rules over the square and the passers-by.Literature
• CinemaThe StrikeSirénaKarel Steklý · 1947A family of miners from Kladno during the strike of 1889.Cinema
• CinemaDistant JourneyDaleká cestaAlfréd Radok · 1949A Jewish family in Prague stripped of its rights, then the camp-ghetto, in a fiction interspersed with archive footage.Cinema
• CinemaThe Emperor and the GolemCísařův pekař – Pekařův císařMartin Frič · 1951In the Prague of alchemy, a baker and his emperor are lookalikes, and the Golem waits to be awakened.Cinema
• CinemaThe Proud PrincessPyšná princeznaBořivoj Zeman · 1952A princess who is too proud, and a king who becomes a gardener to teach her humility.Cinema
• CinemaJourney to the Beginning of TimeCesta do pravěkuKarel Zeman · 1955Four boys row up a river that carries them back to the ancient ages of the Earth.Cinema
• PoetryDenní službaMiroslav Holub · 1958Poems of hospital and laboratory, in which scientific vocabulary replaces conventional images.Literature
• NovelDita SaxovaDita SaxováArnošt Lustig · 1962Prague in 1947: an eighteen-year-old orphan, back from the camps, looks for her place among the living.Literature
• NarrativeThe Terezín RequiemTerezínské rekviemJosef Bor · 1963In a camp, a great requiem mass is rehearsed by musicians who disappear from one transport to the next.Literature
• CinemaVoyage to the End of the UniverseIkarie XB 1Jindřich Polák · 1963A long voyage to Alpha Centauri, and a crew who must live with the time lost on Earth.Cinema
• PoetryA Night with HamletNoc s HamletemVladimír Holan · 1964A long poem of nocturnal dialogue between a poet and a theatre character on the meaning of existence.Literature
• CinemaDiamonds of the NightDémanty nociJan Němec · 1964Two young men who have escaped from a transport to the camps, hunted down in the forest.Cinema
• TheatreThe MemorandumVyrozuměníVáclav Havel · 1965A satire of an administration where an artificial language, meant to specify everything, makes all speech impossible.Literature
• CinemaIntimate LightingIntimní osvětleníIvan Passer · 1965Two musician friends meet again in the provinces, between rehearsals and family meals.Cinema
• CinemaDaisiesSedmikráskyVěra Chytilová · 1966Two young girls decide to be as spoiled as the world, in a farce in colour.Cinema
• NovelThe JokeŽertMilan Kundera · 1967An ironic postcard, the Stalinist years and, much later, a revenge in Moravia.Literature
• CinemaThe Firemen's BallHoří, má panenkoMiloš Forman · 1967A firemen's ball that goes wrong, in a small provincial town.Cinema
• CinemaLate August at the Hotel OzoneKonec srpna v hotelu OzonJan Schmidt · 1967After the end of a world, women survivors born too late and an old woman who remembers.Cinema
• CinemaMarketa LazarováFrantišek Vláčil · 1967In the thirteenth century, two clans of robber lords, a girl promised to the convent, and a royal army on the march.Cinema
• CinemaThe CrematorSpalovač mrtvolJuraj Herz · 1969A man convinced that fire frees souls allows himself to be won over by the new order.Cinema
• CinemaAll My Good CountrymenVšichni dobří rodáciVojtěch Jasný · 1969Seven friends from a Moravian village caught up in the early years of communism.Cinema
• PoetryThe Plague ColumnMorový sloupJaroslav Seifert · 1970Poems of farewell by an old poet to his city, in the wake of the invasion of 1968.Literature
• PoetryBlízkosti smrtiZbyněk Hejda · 1970not translated into EnglishPoems of closeness to death, between the cemetery and a village inn.Literature
• CinemaBehold HomolkaEcce homo HomolkaJaroslav Papoušek · 1970A Sunday with the family, three generations and endless quarrels.Cinema
• CinemaWitchhammerKladivo na čarodějniceOtakar Vávra · 1970A stolen host becomes, in the hands of an inquisitor, an endless witch hunt.Cinema
• NovelToo Loud a SolitudePříliš hlučná samotaBohumil Hrabal · 1976Monologue of a worker who saves books from the paper press.Literature
• NovelThe HangwomanKatyněPavel Kohout · 1978A dark comic novel about a school for executioners, where a docile teenage girl learns a trade like any other.Literature
• Short storiesŠavle mečeLadislav Dvořák · 1979not translated into EnglishStories of a social outcast of the fifties, between the university, the factory and the outskirts of Prague.Literature

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