9 Top czech literature books like Půlnoční pacient by Egon Hostovský

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Půlnoční pacient

By: Egon Hostovský

3.41

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

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1. De bekeerlinge

By: Stefan Hertmans

3.88

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

In een klein dorp in de Provence wordt sinds mensenheugenis over een pogrom en een verborgen schat … read more

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2. Les Chants de Maldoror

By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more

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"...the police, that shield of civilization..."

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

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3. Les caves du Vatican

By: André Gide

3.69

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

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4. Beware of Pity

By: Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of… read more

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5. Selský baroko

By: Jiří Hájíček

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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6. Krakatit

By: Karel Čapek

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Krakatit is a novel on the risks about the abuse of science for human gain. The hero is a chemist M… read more

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Cover of Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera, حسین کاظمی‌یزدی, Suzanne Rappaport

7. Laughable Loves

By: Milan Kundera , حسین کاظمی‌یزدی , Suzanne Rappaport

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Laughable Lovesis a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but w… read more

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8. Amerika

By: Franz Kafka

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more

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9. The Hours

By: None , Michael Cunningham

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more

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10. Veľká láska

By: Balla

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ballova nova kniha uputa svojim ciernym humorom a prenikavou ironiou, neustalym znizovanim tzv. vys… read more

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11. Utz

By: Bruce Chatwin

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged … read more

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12. Imperium

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska

3.73

Format: None pages,

Imperiumis the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single id… read more

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13. The Book of Strange New Things

By: Michel Faber

4.04

Format: 156 pages,

A monumental, genre-defying novel over ten years in the making, Michel Faber's The Book of Strange … read more

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14. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

15. Cesty na Sibiř

By: Martin Ryšavý

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hrdinou Cest na Sibir je mladik touzici stat se ,,muzem s vlastnostmi"; rezignuje proto na vedeckou… read more

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16. City Sister Silver

By: Jáchym Topol , Alex Zucker

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Egon Hostovsky Prize as the best Czech book of the year, this epic novel powerfully c… read more

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17. The Black Spider

By: Susan Bernofsky , Jeremias Gotthelf

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

An NYRB Classics Original It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening … read more

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18. Turnaround: A Memoir

By: Jan Novák , Miloš Forman

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

A biography of the life and work of the director of Hair, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ragtime,… read more

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19. Was man von hier aus sehen kann

By: Mariana Leky

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Von der unbedingten Anwesenheitspflicht im eigenen Leben Selma, eine alte Westerwalderin, kann den … read more

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20. Une vie

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.86

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

Jeanne, ayant fini ses malles, s'approcha de la fenêtre, mais la pluie ne cessait pas. L'averse, t… read more

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"After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think."

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

"One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death."

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

"Then she added, no doubt in answer to her own thoughts: 'You see, life is never as good or as bad as one thinks.'  "

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

"As her figure coarsened, her soul became ever more romantic, and when her corpulence riveted her to her chair, her imagination continued to wander through tender adventures, of which she was the hero…"

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

21. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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22. Jezero

By: Bianca Bellová

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Pribeh ze soucasnosti stary jako lidstvo samo. Rybarska vesnice nekde na konci sveta. Jezero, ktere… read more

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23. Tony Pagoda e i suoi amici

By: Paolo Sorrentino

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Il mondo di Tony Pagoda e grande, non si lascia contenere da un solo libro. E cosi eccolo di nuovo,… read more

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24. Šikmý kostel: románová kronika ztraceného města (léta 1894 - 1921)

By: Karin Lednická

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Románová kronika ztraceného města. Podtitul knihy lapidárně shrnuje příběh o někdejší pastevecké ve… read more

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25. Commies, Crooks, Gypsies, Spooks & Poets: Thirteen Books of Prague in the Year of the Great Lice Epidemic

By: Jan Novák

3.66

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for nonfiction. read more

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26. Nikola Šuhaj loupežník

By: Ivan Olbracht

3.31

Format: 185 pages, None

Nikola Šuhaj loupežník je pololegendární příběh o posledním zbojníkovi z doby 1. světové války a po… read more

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27. Teorie podivnosti

By: Pavla Horáková

3.74

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Vypravěčka Ada Sabová, mladá vědkyně z „Ústavu mezioborových studií člověka“, je v mnohém typickou … read more

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28. Sestry

By: Martin Uhlíř

3.25

Format: None pages, None

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29. The Spell

By: Hermann Broch

3.88

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

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"[...] siauras, pailgas ir liūdnas virš keterų pakibo mėnulio pjautuvas, užsimojęs pjūčiai, bet nekertantis."

-Hermann Broch, The Spell

"Nes visa tai įvyko plakant mano širdžiai; buvo vėjas, saulė ir debesys, visi jie sruvo per mano širdį ir per mano rankas."

-Hermann Broch, The Spell

"Tiktai tada mane apėmė tikroji vienatė, ne užmūrytoji, netikroji, kuriai tamsu tarp sienų ir dar tamsiau už jų, o didžioji vienatvė, kuri yra šviesi kaip sodas be tvoros..."

-Hermann Broch, The Spell

"[...] o iš negirdimų mano būties gelmių vėl pakyla nuostaba: setbiuosi, kad esu žmogus, žmogus miške, per rasas ir per dieną žengiantis žmogus, jau pamirštąs vakarykštį lietų ir šiandienos saulę, pat…"

-Hermann Broch, The Spell

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30. Půlnoční pacient

By: Egon Hostovský

3.41

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

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31. Slavné kriminální případy

By: François Gayot de Pitaval

3.20

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Výbor ze světoznámé sbírky nejzajímavějších soudních případů z 18. století, skutečných kriminálních… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Muhtelif Evhamlar Kitabı

Ömür İklim Demir

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Colazione da Tiffany

Truman Capote , Bruno Tasso

3.72

Transform Your Habits

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Nikolai Gogol

4.35

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