The Czech photographer Josef Koudelka was centre stage with his camera when the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968, photographing mass demonstrations and the confrontations between protestors and invading soldiers. Smuggled out of Czechoslovakia soon after the invasion, Koudelkaâs stunning black-and-white pictures of the citizens of Prague swarming the streets as tanks rum...(展开全部)

The Czech photographer Josef Koudelka was centre stage with his camera when the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968, photographing mass demonstrations and the confrontations between protestors and invading soldiers. Smuggled out of Czechoslovakia soon after the invasion, Koudelkaâs stunning black-and-white pictures of the citizens of Prague swarming the streets as tanks rum...(展开全部)

Nineteenth-century Europe - from Turin to Prague to Paris - abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and ...(展开全部)

The highly anticipated, controversial novel, sold in more than forty countries"" Nineteenth-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at nigh...(展开全部)

This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the hopes of the Prague Spring in 1968, the resistance of Charter 77 and the triumph of the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Now, as his country faces further division in the 1990s, Klima in...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Eduard Mörikes delightfully high-spirited 1855 novella is an imaginary re-creation of the journey Mozart made from Vienna to Prague in 1787 to conduct the first performance of Don Giovanni . Set in the rococo world of the Bohemian nobility, the story paints an unforgettable picture of Mozarts creative geniusits playful heights and its terrible depths. Mörikes own lyr...(展开全部)

彼得•德默兹 | Peter Demetz 捷克裔美国著名学者，耶鲁大学斯特林讲席日耳曼语言及比较文学荣休教授。1922年出生于布拉格，1949年离开故土，此后赴美，在耶鲁大学长期任教，直至1991年退休。2000年，捷克政府向他颁发荣誉勋章，以表彰他“向全世界介绍捷克文化”。

伊凡·克里玛，捷克著名作家。1931年出生于布拉格一个犹太人家庭，10岁时随父母被关进纳粹集中营，在那里度过三年时光。他所有儿童时代的同伴都死于毒气室。　　　　 1956年，克里玛毕业于布拉格大学文学语言系，在一家出版社任编辑，同时开始小说和剧本的创作。1968年苏军进入捷克后，克里玛应邀去美国一所大学做访问学者。一年后，他谢绝了朋友们的劝告回到捷克，随即失去了工作。为了生计他做过救护员、送信员、勘测员等工作，同时作为自由撰稿人写作。有20年时间他的作品在捷克完全遭到禁止，只能以“地下文学”的形式在读者中流传。 克里玛和哈维尔、昆德拉并称捷克文坛的三驾马车，近年来国际声誉日隆。有很多评论者认为，他的文学成就和社会声望都在昆德拉之上。