Czech Literature Now

Epicentre volume 4

Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures

University of Glasgow

Edited by Igor Hajek (1930-1995) This is a volume of translations of contemporary Czech literature, edited by the late Dr Igor Hajek, Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow. We are publishing it now as the fourth volume of our electronic Epicentre Series in memoriam of Dr Hajek.

Czech Literature Now

Table of Contents

• Igor Hajek - an obituary (Jan Culik, published in the Independent newspaper, April 1995)

• Editor' s Note by Igor Hajek (unfinished)

• Josef Skvorecky, Neuilly (translated by Kaca Polackova Henley)

• Jaroslav Vejvoda, The Outing (translated by E. S. M. Morrison)

• Iva Pekarkova, Yellow Rambling (translated by Kaca Polackova Henley)

• Lenka Prochazkova, The Sweet Weekend (translated by James Naughton)

• Ludvik Vaculik, A Tram in Summer (translated by James Naughton)

• Ludvik Vaculik, Our Slovak Question (translated by Michael Henry Heim)

• Ludvik Vaculik, A Day in August (translated by Jan Culik and Lesley Keen)

• Bohumil Hrabal, Mister Iontek (translated by James Naughton)

• Alexandra Berkova, Magoria (translated by James Naughton)

• Michal Ajvaz, Riddles (translated by James Naughton)

• Michal Ajvaz, The Past (translated by Michael Henry Heim)

• Michal Ajvaz, The End of the Garden (translated by James Naughton

• Jiri Kratochvil, Coming Closer (translated by Jan Culik and Lesley Keen)

• Jiri Kratochvil, Alien IV (translated by Jan Culik and Lesley Keen)

• J. H. Krchovsky, Five Poems (translated by O. T. Chalkstone)

• Michal Viewegh, The Blissful Years of Lousy Living (translated by O. T. Chalkstone)

• Eda Kriseova, We Don' t Have the Right (translated by Marie Bednar)