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The following papers are included: "Responses to the Literature Papers" (Malynne M. Sternstein); "Kitsch and Irony in Kundera: 'The Joke' and 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'" (Aaron Beaver); "Daniela Fischerova's 'The Message Table': (Lauren McConnell); "Rethinking the Grotesque in Hrabal's Fiction" Carnival as a Model for Closely Watching Trains" (Laura Shear Urbaszewski); "Responses to the Linguistics Papers" (Masako U. Fidler); "Czech Preposition Vocalization: Towards an Articulatory Approach" (Jefrey D. Holdeman); Czech Quantity: the Proto-Slavic Accentology" (Mark Pisaro); "The East, West, and the Center of Europe as Cultural Concepts, Emblems, and Vehicles of Creative Misunderstanding" (Petr Bilek); "When Just Saying 'No' is Not Enough: Some Discourse Interactional Properties of 'Ano,''No,' and 'Jo'" (Masako U. Fidler); "In Search of Representational Means for Inner Worlds: Gogol-Dostoevsky-Kafka" (Alexander Levitsky); "Czech Jewish Identity After the Holocaust: The Case of Jiri Weil, the Pinkas Synagogue, and Weil's Elegy for the 77,297" (Alisa Gayle Mayor). References appear at the end of each chapter. (KFT)

This volume contains the following papers: "Texas Czech of Texas Czechs: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective on Language Use in a Dying Language Community" (Lida Dutkova); "Language Variation in an Immigrant Community: Language and Community Maintenance" (Eva Eckert); "Some Special Problems of Imperfective Derivation in Czech" (Charles Townsend); "Responses to the Linguistics Papers" (Mirjam Fried); "Betraying K: Milan Kundera Exile and the Translator's Art" (Deborah Garfinkle); "Kundera's Kafka, Kafka's Kundera" (Hana Pichova, Marjorie E. Rhine); "From Prague to New York City: Feminist Poetics of Iva Pekarkova" (Elena Sokol); "Responses to the Literature Papers" (Karen von Kunes); "Referentiality vs. Intertextuality: Transformations of Meanings and Ambiguity of Reference in Contemporary Czech Prose-Fiction" (Petr Bilek); "The Baroque Spirit of Czech Literature and the Legacy of Russian Arabesques: Neruda, Capek, Gogol, and Dostoevsky" (Alexander Levitsky); "West Slavic Influence on East Slavic Cyrillic Orthography Before the 12th Century: Novgorodan and Galician" (Robert Mathiesen); "A Conversational Analysis of Debate" (Masako Ueda); "Appendix: The Czech Teaching Resources and Materials Project" (Jeff Holdeman). References appear at the end of each chapter. (KFT)

With this book, the author Emil Bassat tries to cover the images of Bulgarian translators from the Czech language. In portrait-surveys conducted entirely on the Internet, he presents us the best Bulgarian bohemians who have dedicated their lives to translation work. Without pretensions to comprehensiveness, the book also reflects Bulgarian-Czech cultural contacts. According to the author, this is a “book-confession of love for the Czech Republic and Czech culture” and he hopes that it will arouse interest among the bohemian community in Bulgaria, and also among all those who are interested in the reception of Czech literature in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on Czech fictions. With reference to Czech literature, people in the U.S. usually come up with two names "The Good Soldier, Schweik," whom they consider a typical example of the Czech national character and Karel Capek, the author of "War With the Newts," and "R U.R.," whose invented word robot has even gotten into Webster's dictionary. The best-informed have also heard of Jaroslav Hasek, but they do not always identify him as the creator of "The Good Soldier." While nobody in the world still thinks that Czech motion pictures are concerned with the dramatization of production quotas and the settlement of problems of conjugal infidelity before party meetings, very little is known about Czech fiction.

Interviews Ludvík Vaculík, the author of the book "Prague Two-Thousand-Word Manifesto," on his condition in Prague, Czech Republic. Official denial of publishing of the author's books in his country; Query related to the author's opposition to literature with a political commitment; Personal background of the author.

Part II. Features several fiction books from Czechoslovakia. 'The Guinea Pigs,' by Vaculik; 'The Farewell Party,' by Kundera.

The author reflects on a visit to the Clementinum, often called the most beautiful library in the world, located in Prague, Czech Republic. Topics include the library's rich history and architectural beauty, its role in the development of Czech literature and national libraries, and its contributions to digitization efforts and preservation of cultural heritage.

This article focuses on Eudora Welty's books translated in Czech. "The Ponder Heart," first book to be translated in Czech and also the translation of Welty's second book "The Optimist's Daughter" by Eva Masnerova.

Provides information on several Czech novels published from 1990 to 2002. "Sestra," by Jáchym Topol; "Pestré vrstvy," by Ivan Landsmann; "Rok perel," by Zuzana Brabcová.

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An excerpt from the book "Tsunami Blues" by Markéta Pilátová, which focuses on the December 2004 tsunami in Indonesia and the Czech Republic.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses various reports published within the issue including stories from Radka Denemarkova, Petra Soukopova and Jakuba Katalpa.

This section offers news briefs on Czech culture, language and literature. The Texas Czech Dialect Archive (TCDA) will serve as an online source of audio-recordings from Czech Moravians in Texas from 1970 to early 2000s. Czech students in Zagreb, Croatia has launched TheLivejournal which provides various topics of interest, the student newspaper Listy and learning pages. Professor Massako Fidler will give the intensive course Iconocity in Language at Charles University as a visiting professor.