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This volume presents the results of the international conference “Hans von Aachen and New Research in the Transfer of Artistic Ideas into Central Europe,” organized by the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i. (in particular by its research center Studia Rudolphina), in Prague on September 22–25, 2010.

ARTEFACTUM, Prague, 2012, 237 x 287 mm, 280 pages, English and German, ISBN 978-808-6890-42-5

 

Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats, and women (in roughly that order),” Bohumil Hrabal is one of the most important, most translated, and most idiosyncratic Czech authors.

The motto Národ sobě – “From the Nation to Itself” – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague’s National Theatre symbolizes the importance theatre holds for the Czechs.

It’s 1979 in Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing restoration of repressive communism known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. On the advice of a friend, Vaculík begins to keep a diary: "a book about things, people and events.”

The life fates of the people who, during their childhood, experienced the Nazi extermination of the Jews, escaped the planned destruction and got into the castle sanatoriums of the Christian humanist Přemysl Pitter, written by Pavel Kohn and was first published in Czech in 2000.