Recommended Reading - Prague
Erben Nemcova
The Best of Czech Fairly Tales
Jan Neruda
Prague Tales
Franz Kafka
Collected Stories
The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika)
Letters to Milena
Letter to Father
The Castle
Metamorphosis
The Trial
The Diaries
Gustav Meyrink
The Golem
The Opal And Other Stories
The Angel of the West Window
The White Dominican
Ladislay Klima
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
Jaroslay Hasek
The Good Soldier Svejk
Vitezslav Nezval
Antilyrik and Other Poems
Vitezslav Nezval, & Jindrich Styrsky
Edition 69
Vladislav Vancura
Summer of Caprice
Karal Capek
R.U.R. and The Insect Play
Three Novels. Hordubal, Meteor, Ordinary Life
War with the Newts
Tales From Two Pockets
Jiri Orten
Selected Poems
Jiri Weil
Mendelssohn is on the Roof
Vladimir Holan
The First Testament
Soliloquy with Shakespeare
Zdenek Jirotka
Saturnin
Bohumil Hrabal
Closely Observed Trains
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
I Served the King of England
Too Loud a Solitude
Arnost Lustig
Waiting for Leah
Diamonds of the Night
Lovely Green Eyes
Dita Saxova
Ladislav Novak
The Transformations of Mr. Hadliz
Josef Skvorecky
Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka
The End of Lieutenant Boruvka
The Engineer of Human Souls
Miracle Game
The Bride of Texas
Two Murders in my Double Life
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
Largo Desolato
Temptation
The Garden Party and Other Plays
Daniela Fischerova
Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else
Pavel Kohout
The Widow Killer
I Am Snowing
Ludvik Vaculik
The Axe
Ivan Klima
My Merry Mornings
Lovers for a Day
My Golden Trades
Love and Garbage
Milan Kundera
Life is Elsewhere
The Joke
Laughable Loves
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ignorance
Identity
Immortality
Miroslav Holub
Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations
Patrik Ourednik
Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
Nancy Hawker (Ed.)
Povidky: Short Stories by Czech Women
Iva Pekarkova
Gimme the Money
Jachym Topol
City Sister Silver
Emil Hakl
Of Kids & Parents
This is the syllabus for Petr Bilek's PSP class:
NON-FICTION
Charles IV - Emperor by the Grace of God - Catalogue of the Exhibition. Culture and Art in the Reign of the Last of the Luxembourgs 1347-1437
Sudek, Josef (PHT)/ Farova, Anna - The Window of My Studio (photography, essay)
Simecka, Milan - Letters from Prison
Klima, Ivan - Between Security and Insecurity
Klima, Ivan - The Spirit of Prague
Koudelka,
Josef - Prague, 1968 (photography)
Masin, Barbara - Gauntlet ;Five Friends, 24,000 Enemy Troops, and the Secret That Could Have Changed the Course of the Cold War
Epstein, Helen - Where She Came from. A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History
Svankmajerova, Eva - Baradla Cave (art)
Asch, Ronald G. - The Thirty Years War. Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48
Agnew, Hugh -The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown
Abrams, Bradley F. - The Struggle for the Soul of a Nation. Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism
Iggers, Wilma - Women of Prague. Ethnic Diversity and Social Change from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Cornej, Petr - Great Stories in Czech History
Cornej, Petr & Pokorny, Jiri - A Brief History of the Czech Lands to 2004
Amir Bar-Lev - Fighter (film)
FILM
Kolya
(Kolja)
Dir.: Jan Sverák, 1996
Closely Watched Trains
(Ostre sledované vlaky)
Dir.: Jirí Menzel, 1966
The Shop on Main Street
(Obchod na korze)
Dir.: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, 1966
Zelary
(Zelary)
Dir.: Ondrej Trojan, 2003
Divided We Fall
(Musíme si pomáhat)
Dir.: Jan Hrebejk, 2000
The Elementary School
(Obecná skola)
Dir.: Jan Sverák, 1991
My Sweet Little Village
(Vesnicko má stredisková)
Dir.: Jirí Menzel, 1985
The Firemen's Ball
(Horí, má panenko)
Dir.: Milos Forman, 1967
Loves of a Blonde
(Lásky jedné plavovlásky)
Dir.: Milos Forman, 1965
Dark Blue World
(Tmavomodrý svet)
Dir. by Jan Sverák, 2001
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julie a tma), 1959
Murder Czech Style (Vrazda po cesku), 1967
The Coward (Zbabelec), 1961
The Wolf Trap (Vlcí jáma), 1957
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