The most exciting way to experience the culture you are visiting is through it's books, music, and film. To get you started, we've compiled a partial list of noteworthy pieces.
Books (many of these in NCSU libraries)
Contemporary Fiction:
- Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Ignorance, Life is Elsewhere, Identity
- Vaclav Havel: The Garden Party (play), The Beggar’s Opera, Summer Meditations, Open Letters: selected writings, Largo Desolato
- Pavel Kohout: I am Snowing: confessions of a woman of Prague, The Hangwman, Poor Murderer (play)
- Bohumil Hrabal: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, Too Loud a Solitude, Closely Watched Trains, I Served the King of England
- Ivan Klima: My Golden Trades, Lovers for a Day, Between Security and Insecurity, The Ultimate Intimacy, My First Loves, My Merry Mornings (stories from Prague)
Classic Fiction:
- Karel Capek: Rossum’s Universal Robots (R>U>R>), War with the Newts, Cross Roads
- Jaroslav Hasek: The Good Soldier Schweik, The Red Commissar
- Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, In the Penal Colony, Collected Stories
- Jan Neruda: Prague Tales
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Two Stories of Prague
- Bill Granger: The Infant of Prague
- Hanna Demetz: The House on Prague Street
- Zdena Salivarova: Summer in Prague
Non-Fiction:
- Karl Demetz: Prague in Black in Gold
- Ivan Klima: The Spirit of Prague
Film
- Loves of a Blonde
- Amadeus
- Closely Watched Trains
- Shop on Mainstreet.
- My Sweet Little Village
- Kolya
Czech New Wave:
- Daisies
- Fireman’s Ball
- Martyrs of Love
Recent:
- Divided We Fall
- Up and Dow. Zelary
- I Served the King of England
Filmed in Prague:
- Mission Impossible (Tom Cruise)
- From Hell (Johnny Depp)
- Amadeus
- Casino Royal
- XXX (Van Diesel)
- Brothers Bloom
