From Laughter to Forgetting. A Sourcebook of Czech Avant-Garde Discourses

Ludvík Vaculík's novel Český snář (A Czech Dreambook) can be read as an authentic statement about the crisis in which Czech society finds itself, forced to submit to totalitarian norms. In his work, Vaculík transforms the form of regular diary entries kept from 22 January 1979 to 2 February 1980 into an original novel form, in which the tension between truth and fiction plays a significant role. Published jointly by: Nadační fond Česká knižnice, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, Nakladatelství Host

A monograph on contextualization of the phenomenon of generating literary texts using the latest technologies. Publishing house: Karolinum Press: https://karolinum.cz/en/books/piorecky-the-culture-of-neural-networks-30719 Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS: https://ucl.cas.cz/produkt/the-culture-of-neural-networks/

This book brings together papers that were presented at a workshop in May 2018 to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Szmul Zygielbojm’s protest suicide. The workshop was organised at The Polish University Abroad within the framework of an ongoing seminar series on twentieth century Polish history.5 The volume opens with a message from Zygielbojm’s grandsons, Dr Arthur I. Zygielbaum and Paul S. Zygielbaum, to participants of the workshop (see p. 11), in which they highlight the continuing relevance of their grandfather’s sacrifice (Michael Fleming, Introduction).

A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages. Grzegorz Moroz convincingly argues that, for all the similarities and cross-cultural influences, in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century non-fiction Anglophone and Polish travel writing have dynamically evolved different generic horizons of expectations. While the Anglophone travel book developed relatively steadily in that period, the Polish genre of the podróż was first replaced by the listy (kartki) z podróży, and then by the reportaż podróżniczy.