Michael Henry Heim Knihy

Developed by Professor Michael Heim (UCLA), the text contains grammar, extensive model sentences, and exercises (Part 1) and a series of review lessons (Part 2). Vocabulary and sentences are recorded along with a selection of exercises. Czech-English, English-Czech glossaries are provided. This intermediate course is particularly helpful for those who have a command of Russian. text. Product no. AFCZ10D

This is the first novel by the author of Immortality, which won The Independent Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of The Book of Laughter and Fogetting.

This parable of censorship and the modern state centers on Hanta, a trash collector whose habit of salvaging and reading discarded books has brought him both the richness of the classics and the ridicule of his boss

Poviedky zo zbierok Encyklopédia mŕtvych, Lutna a jazvy a próza Legenda o spáčoch sú sústredené na veľkú tému smrti, ktorú autor prezentuje v rôznych historických, kultúrnych, spoločenských a ideologických kontextoch – od gnostických legiend po modernú dobu, od legendárnych spáčov po nadčasovú encyklopédiu, v ktorej možno nájsť zaznamenané životy všetkých ľudí, ktorí na svete žili. Táto poviedková kniha je vzrušujúcim prepletaním imaginácie a faktov, pradávnych právd a moderných skúseností, historických poznatkov a ich ironickej rekonštrukcie. Ponúka excelentný čitateľský zážitok a viacvrstvový pohľad na chápanie dejín i individuálneho ľudského osudu.

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanising; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover - these are the two couples whose story is told in this novel. Controlled by day, Tereza's jealousy awakens by night, transformed into ineffably sad death-dreams, while Tomas, a successful surgeon, alternates loving devotion to the dependent Tereza with the ardent pursuit of other women. Sabina, an independent, free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - of parents, husband, country, love itself - whereas her lover, the intellectual Franz, loses all because of his earnest goodness and fidelity. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel, says the novelist, "the unbearable lightness of being"--Not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine

Attempting to go beyond the cliche of Prague as the golden city , this book brings out all its mystery, ambiguity, gloom, lethargy and hidden fascination. More than a literary and cultural history of Prague, this book seeks to be both a celebration and requiem for an oppressed culture.

The pieces collected in Lend Me Your Character—the novella "Steffie Cvek in the Jaws of Life" and a collection of short stories entitled Life Is a Fairy Tale— solidify Dubravka Ugresic's reputation as one of Eastern Europe's most playful and inventive writers. From the story of Steffie Cvek, a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by clichés as she searches relentlessly for an elusive romantic love in a narrative punctuated by threadbare advice from women's magazines and constructed like a sewing pattern, to "The Kharms Case," one of Ugresic's funniest stories ever about the strained relationship between a persistent translator and an unresponsive publisher, the pieces in this collection are always smart and endlessly entertaining.

The only authorized translation of the bestselling masterpiece by one of the greatest authors of our time, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography.

Najznámejšia novela Thomasa Manna zachytáva vznik a vývin pustošivého, bezvýchodiskového citu, ktorý uzatvára smrť, nakoniec predstavujúca vykúpenie. Sám autor ju charakterizoval ako „príbeh o rozkoši zo zániku“. Úspešný starnúci spisovateľ Gustav von Aschenbach sa nečakane rozhodne stráviť leto v Benátkach. Ubytuje sa na Lide, kde jeho pozornosť upúta krásny poľský chlapec Tadzio. Keď v meste vypukne epidémia cholery, Aschenbach zvažuje odchod, no jeho fascinácia chlapcom je silnejšia než pud sebazáchovy, a tak kvôli Tadziovi ostáva. V deň Tadziovho odchodu Aschenbach zomiera, pozorujúc na pláži objekt svojej trýznivej lásky.

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties.

Poviedky majú svoj pôvab i v tom, že v nich Neruda zachytil svoje spomienky na detstvo, na študentské časy, na priateľov, na revolúciu r. 1848, na rodičov, na mnohých blízkych a známych - a ďalej v tom, že veľmi živo charakterizoval typy remeselníkov, domáce panie a slečinky, slúžky, že postavil do protikladu pomätené typy a zdravé ľudové charaktery, a to vo všetkých možných okolnostiach, smiešnych i vážnych a niekedy i tragických.