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  • Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europeby Rajendra Anand Chitnis

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 44.95

    This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods, focusing on the most innovative trend in this period, on those writers who characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature. more...

  • Translating Milan Kunderaby Michelle Woods

    Multilingual Matters 2006; US$ 59.95

    Uses archival research to view the cultural scope of the translation issue involving the controversies surrounding Kundera's translated novels. This work focuses on the language of the novels, Kundera's 'lost' works, writing as translation, interpretation, exile, censorship, and the social responses to translated fiction in the Anglophone world. more...

  • Narrating Post/Communismby Natasa Kovacevic

    Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 44.95

    This book examines communist and post-communist literary and visual narratives, including the writings of prominent anti-communist dissidents and exiles such as Vladimir Nabokov, Czeslaw Milosz and Milan Kundera, exploring important themes including how Eastern European regimes and cultures have been portrayed as totalitarian, barbarian and "Orientalist" – in contrast to the civilized "West" – disappointment in the changes brought on by post-communist transition, and nostalgia for communism. more...

  • Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domainby Agata Kochanska; Dagmar Divjak

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 176.00

    Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. It features diachronic and synchronic descriptions of nominal and verbal phenomena, event encoding strategies and discourse markers. The analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike. more...

  • Cross Roadsby Karel Capek; Norma Comrada

    Cat Bird Press 2002; US$ 9.99

    Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers. The first collection, “Wayside Crosses,” presents an agonized and unsuccessful search for God and truth. These metaphysical tales are not about finding God as much as they are about discovering man’s limitations, his terror and helplessness, and understanding the value of the ongoing search. The second collection, “Painful Tales,” contains more realistic stories of characters being forced to make choices in which one good conflicts with another. more...

  • Milan Kunderaby Harold Bloom

    Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 54.00

    -- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights. -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers. Known best for his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera is also an established poet, playwright, and essayist. more...

  • Lady Cadogan's Solitaireby Lady Adelaide Cadogan; Lady Adelaide Cadogan

    Scott & Nix, Inc. 2011; US$ 7.99

    The completely redesigned classic Lady Cadogan's Solitaire —the first and most authoritative collection of rules of solitaire games ever published—includes easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams for fascinating solitaire variations, including: The Beautiful One Kings Over Queens The Four Corners The Mill The Blockade The Clock ...and more! Lady Cadogan's Solitaire is the perfect companion for hours of entertainment playing the most relaxing yet challenging of all card games. more...

  • Political Action in Vaclav Havel's Thoughtby Delia Popescu

    Lexington Books 2011; US$ 59.99

    .cs676C7CC9{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt} .csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } Political Action in Vaclav Havel’s Thought: The Responsibility of Resistance , by Delia Popescu, explores the Czech dissident’s theory of individual opposition, resistance to oppression, and individual responsibility. The book contributes to our understanding of both the extreme circumstances of oppression and to the subversive uses of oppression... more...

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