Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then was subsequently banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the c…
Ange en quête d'absolu ? Monstre sanguinaire ? Avant la guerre, Albert Camus conçoit Caligula, ainsi que Sisyphe ou Meursault (L'Étranger), comme un héros…
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he ha…
Sbírka baladických básní K. J. Erbena právem patří mezi klasická díla české literatury. Nejznámější a nejoblíbenější soubor básní začal autor psát již jako student. Jeho balady jsou inspirované slovan…
Tango to dramat o współczesnym społeczeństwie, w którym panuje konformizm, anarchia, brak postaw. Farsową sytuację kompletnego pomieszania i rozprzężenia opanowuje i wykorzystuje władza, czyli silny i…
A timeless classic on the art of theatre from the most influential stage director of the twentieth century.In this seminal and iconoclastic book, groundbreaking director and cofounder of the Royal Sha…
Locked into a bloody cycle of murder and reprisal, Electra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief and a thirst for vengeance. When her brother Orestes at last returns, she urges …
After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escapes the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic is…
Útlá knížka, jejímž jádrem je staroněmecká pověst, je vrcholem autorova prozaického díla, jakousi rekapitulací jeho myšlenek a postulátů. Věčným tématem je zde svár reality s ideálem, kterého je ale t…
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate.…
From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take u…
