Gerald Turner Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

A captivating three-generational saga set in the twentieth century, beginning when time was linear and ending with a less well-defined notion of progress.

Patrik Ouředník predstavuje dvadsiate storočie so všetkými jeho protirečeniami a veľkými ilúziami. Ukazuje, že nič sa nedá zredukovať do jediného, pravdivého hľadiska, mieša historické fakty s nezvyčajnými postrehmi, pričom zdôrazňuje hrôzu a absurditu dvadsiateho storočia. Europeana, ktorej dramatizáciu nedávno uviedlo aj Slovenské komorné divadlo Martin, bola v ankete Lidových novín vyhlásená za knihu roka, vyšla vo viac ako dvadsiatich jazykoch, čím sa stala najprekladanejšou českou knihou od novembrovej revolúcie. V Europeane sa prelínajú dve obrazové roviny. Prvá sa skladá zo správ o otrasnej brutalite vojen a revolúcií, o kolaborácii vedy a techniky so zlom, bizarných hrách s oslobodeným sexom, mediálnym falšovaním skutočnosti, šialenstve spásonosných utópií a ďalších prejavoch vystupňovanej hystérie ľudstva. Druhý „obraz” tvorí skratkovitá prehliadka rozmanitých intelektuálnych teórií. Ouředník ich lapidárnym preformulovaním zbavuje špekulatívneho kúzla a obnažuje ich základ, z ktorého často cítiť prázdnotu a bezradnosť.

Kniha rozhovorů naší přední novinářky se šesti ženami o jejich pohledu na rusko-čečenskou válku.

Next to Vaclav Havel, Milan Šimečka was the most important, and most widely translated, dissident opposing Czechoslovakia's communist regime. Many of his essays and articles appeared in leading American and British periodicals during the 1970s and 80s, and his book, The Restoration of Order ( Verso, 1984), is considered a brilliant analysis of real socialism and the neo-Stalinist normalization policy instituted under Gustav Husak.Simecka was imprisoned from 1981-82 under Paragraph 98 of the Criminal Code ("Subversion of the Republic"). His smuggling his texts out of the country to be published abroad. The letters in this volume were written during his stay in prison. In them he was not allowed to mention politics, so he wrote about people, love, and human relations. The selection of letters presented here bear witness to his attitude to other people, to his imprisonment and the period in which he lived, as well as his personal philosophy. They contain philosophical reflections as well as practical advice to his sons and words of encouragement to his wife. Similar to Havel's Letters to Olga, Šimečka's Letters from Prison give us a glimpse into the difficult struggle undertaken by Czechoslovak dissidents in opposition to a Soviet-styled regime that was considered the most hard-line in Eastern Europe.

Telling the story of Kristyna, a 45-year-old dentist and her unruly 16-year-old daughter, No Saints or Angels is set in contemporary Prague. It spans three generations, taking in the World War II, Communist and post-Communist times.