Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:40:27 +0200https://english.radio.cz/pied-piper-a-czech-version-a-classic-story-defies-interpretation-8146420© 2026 Radio Prague International Most Czechs know the story of the Pied Piper through a writer called Viktor Dyk. His short novel of the same name – Krysař in Czech – is a Czech classic, written on the eve of the First World War. But this is no children’s fairy tale. Dyk’s version of the story is complex and ambiguous, and the Pied Piper himself emerges as a troubled character, part dreamer, part revolutionary. He also seems unnervingly relevant to our own time. Karolinum Press has just published the Pied Piper in English, in an excellent translation by Mark Corner. David Vaughan met the translator to talk about the book. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/corner_mark1.jpg?timestamp=1590431311 https://english.radio.cz/pied-piper-a-czech-version-a-classic-story-defies-interpretation-8146420 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9