• Prague is a historical novel by Arthur Phillips about a group of North American expatriates in Budapest, Hungary. It is set in about 1990, at the end of...
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  • The Prague Offensive, the last major European battle of World War II Infant Jesus of Prague, a famous statue of Jesus located in Prague Prague (novel),...
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  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being (category Novels set in Prague)
    Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog, and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak...
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  • The Prague Cemetery (Italian: Il cimitero di Praga) is a novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published in October 2010; the English translation...
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    Golem (redirect from Golem of Prague)
    narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th-century rabbi of Prague. According to Moment magazine, "the golem is a highly mutable metaphor with...
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  • HHhH (category Novels set in Prague)
    leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II. The novel was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. The novel follows the history of the...
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    reforms. The Prague Spring inspired music and literature including the work of Václav Havel, Karel Husa, Karel Kryl and Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable...
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  • Notes from Underground is a 2014 novel by the English writer Roger Scruton. It is set in Prague in the 1980s and follows a young Czech writer, Jan Reichl...
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  • of an anonymous actress, which Austerlitz found in the Prague theatrical archives. The novel shifts to contemporary Paris as Austerlitz seeks out any...
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  • The Man with the Iron Heart (film) (category Films set in Prague)
    Laurent Binet's 2010 novel HHhH, and focuses on Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II...
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  • meets, by chance, Josef, a fellow émigré who was briefly her lover in Prague. The novel examines the feelings instigated by the return to a homeland which...
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    Athanasius Pernath, a jeweler and art restorer who lives in the ghetto of Prague. But his story is experienced by an anonymous narrator, who, during a visionary...
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    descent and owner of a chocolate factory, meets a homeless man in the city of Prague, who he believes is his doppelgänger. Even though Felix, the supposed doppelgänger...
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  • Spaceman (2024 film) (category Films based on Czech novels)
    represent." The novel has Jakub choose the name Hanuš, telling the alien the apocryphal story that a clockmaker named Hanuš constructed the Prague astronomical...
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  • The Prague Orgy (1985) is a novella by Philip Roth. The short book is the epilogue to his trilogy Zuckerman Bound. The story follows Roth's alter ego Nathan...
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    The Good Soldier Švejk (category Novels set in Prague)
    Soldier Švejk (pronounced [ˈʃvɛjk]) is an unfinished satirical dark comedy novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about a good-humored...
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    Franz Kafka (category Writers from Prague)
    July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was an Austrian-Czech novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His...
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    temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec...
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  • Kepler is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1981. In Kepler Banville recreates Prague despite never having been there when he wrote it. A historical...
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    administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague. The cemetery is mentioned in Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery, the novel which was named after it. The Old...
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    to Europe, and leaves for Prague, unaware that Soviet tanks have occupied the city and put down the Prague Spring. The novel has 367 short sections, one...
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  • The Gray Man (2022 film) (category Films set in Prague)
    and Evans attached to star. Filming took place in Los Angeles, Paris and Prague between March and July 2021. With a production budget of $200 million, it...
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    Garland, 1996. pp. 43–58. "F. Marion Crawford and The Witch of Prague: A Prague Novel?" by Cyril Simsa, Foundation No. 73, pp. 17–46. Summer 1998. "F...
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    incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 and published posthumously in 1927. The novel originally began...
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  • by police inspector Javert (Rush). It was filmed at Barrandov Studios in Prague, Czech Republic. Jean Valjean, a man arrested for stealing food, is released...
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    Alois Jirásek (redirect from Temno (novel))
    1930, Prague) was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a high school history teacher in Litomyšl and later in Prague until...
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    Eduard Bass (category Male actors from Prague)
    1946) was a Czech prose writer, journalist, singer, and actor. Born in Prague, he worked as a singer, journalist and cabaret director from 1910. From...
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    Karel Čapek (section Novels)
    journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920)...
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  • sagacious Josef Steiner are arrested and evicted for having no passports. In Prague Kern meets Ruth Holland and falls in love with her. The three immigrants...
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  • Nosferatu (2024 film) (category Films shot in Prague)
    cast confirmed in early 2023. Filming primarily took place in and around Prague between February and May 2023. Nosferatu is scheduled to be released theatrically...
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