On or Related to Kafka:
Kafka page This page has a more elegant version of Kafka's letter to his father (than the one on our site), as well as pages on Kafka and Judaism and Kafka and the Kabbala. The page of pictures includes art as well as photographs, but it comes with what some will regard as annoying music.
Franz Kafka's Prague: A Literary Walking Tour
Kafka page Includes a biography and links.
St. Vitus's Cathedral The cathedral appears prominently in Chapter 9 of The Trial. This site describes it in quite a bit of detail.
St. Vitus's Cathedral This site is briefer than the previous one, but still worth looking at.
On or Related to Hrabal:
Bohumil Hrabal - the Close Watcher of Trains.A readable account of Hrabal's life, with pictures.
Website by Václav Kadlec, the Czech guardian of Bohumil Hrabal's work and the editor and publisher of Hrabal's autoritative and definitive nineteen-volume Collected Works.
The Bambino di Praga, found in I Served the King of England, pp. 77-82.
On Capek:
Rossum's universal Robots Play by Capek.
On Socialist Realism:
What is Socialist Realism ? Illustrations, and a brief explanation of the ideology.
A gallery of downloadable pictures from Statue Park in Budapest. This is a place in which the Hungarians collected all the out of favor art that wasn't destroyed, and people can go there to gloat, or reminisce, according to their preference.
Concerning Socialist Realism: Recent Publications on Russian Art. This book review contains a lot of fine background information on Socialist Realism.
Paintings on the Marxist Internet Archive site. A small sampling of Socialist Realist paintings from scans made by a web site called The Russian Art Gallery.
The World's largest STALIN monument. Select "Photo Gallery" and scroll down. This site is otherwise interesting, and relevant to samizdat, below.
General Czech:
Life of Comenius An introduction to the religious leader from Moravia, a Province of Bohemia now in the Czech Republic.
On Samizdat:
Russian samizdat This movement began in Russia, so learning a bit about the Russian version will probably be useful to you.
Review of Uffelmann book This book is a catalog for a museum exhibit on samizdat..
Modern American samizdat However, the movement endures to the present day, and here is a version of it that applies to contemporary American society.
Modern American samizdat However, the movement endures to the present day, and here is a version of it that applies to contemporary American society.
Subversive currents in contemporary thought This interesting site seems almost to be written in a secret language. Have a look at it: in this sense it is typical of the way that samizdat truied to hide its purpose "in plain sight."
Czech samizdat A wide-ranging survey of dissent in Soviet Czechoslovakia.
Two Czech Jokes and the 'Unlocked Cabinet' of Democratic Teaching A professor who has taught in the Czech Republic describes what it was like in the first few years after Soviet rule. He explicitly speaks of the works of Kudera and Hrabal as samizdat.
Why Vaclav Havel is our era’s George Orwell and more On the role of the former Czech president in fighting the Soviet Union.