Category Czech
Does It Have to Be #MeToo?: Petra Hůlová’s “The Long Version,” Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker
Many readers of “The Long Version” by Petra Hůlová, translated from Czech by Alex Zucker, will find that this short novel is about pre- and post-#MeToo feminism, or that it’s about the permissiveness of Gen X versus the primness of Gen Alpha, or that it’s about the prickliness of mother-daughter relationships. Hůlová works all of these themes into about 218 pages, plus thoughts on the writing life and an unrequited love.
The Haunted Modernism of Jindřich Štyrský’s “Dreamverse,” Translated from Czech by Jed Slast
By Sean Lambert Reading Jindřich Štyrský’s dream journal highlights what an understudied genre of literature the dream journal is. Perhaps if there were a larger body of famous examples (Jack Kerouac’s Book of Dreams and William Burroughs’ My Education are desperate for company), it would be clearer how uniquely compelling, evocative and revealing is Štyrský’s […]
Translating Fact into Fiction: Alex Zucker on Heda Margolius Kovály’s Innocence
Interview by Stacey Knecht Stacey Knecht, a translator from the Czech and Dutch based in the Netherlands, spoke with Alex Zucker via Skype on May 22, 2015 about his latest translation, Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street by Czech author Heda Margolius Kovály, just out from Soho House Press. “Set in and around a cinema where […]