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“You Must Change Your Life”: the friendship between Rilke and Rodin through the eyes of a Czech…
In 1902 the 26-year-old Rainer Maria Rilke went to Paris to write a monograph of the French sculptor, Auguste Rodin. By that time Rodin was in his early 60s and was…
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Today We Die a Little: a runner’s biography of Emil Zátopek, the greatest Czech runner of all time.
Richard Askwith is a well-known writer and journalist, but perhaps more than anything else he is a runner. In his native Britain he won a cult following with his book Feet…
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David Short and Czechoslovakia: love begins with the verb
David Short first came to Prague as a student over fifty years ago. He remained for the best part of six years, experiencing at first hand the Prague Spring and then the…
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J. R. Pick and a brilliant novel of the Holocaust: Part 2
In the last edition of Czech Books we featured an interview with Zuzana Justman, who with her older brother and mother survived the wartime Terezín ghetto. Her brother…
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J. R. Pick and a brilliant novel of the Holocaust – at last available in English: Part 1
“Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” is a remarkable book by many standards. It is a comic novel set in the wartime Jewish ghetto in Terezín, written by the…
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Noir is the new black in Prague
If you enjoy noir crime stories with their troubled, ambivalent heroes and creepy, underworld settings, you are in for a treat. Akashic Books in New York have just added…
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Josef Straka: a modern-day Prague flâneur
Josef Straka is an heir to the rich tradition of the poet as a wanderer through the city. In Paris they have the “flâneur”, but in Prague it is the “chodec”, the walker…
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David Whiteman: the forgotten Czech story of the man who triggered World War I
When the Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne in Sarajevo in 1914, he was just short of his twentieth birthday. Under Austrian law…
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Lisa Miková: I volunteered to go to Auschwitz
Since her early childhood in the 1920s, Lisa Miková had dreamed of becoming a fashion designer. When as a student she started submitting her designs to one of the best…
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Ireland’s Good Soldier Švejk reaches Prague
All the characters in Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s great Irish-language comic novel Cré na Cille are dead. The title could be translated as Graveyard Clay and the setting is a…
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