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Prague : Top 10 Works of Art, Music and Literature

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1. The Trial

The protagonist Joseph K. of Kafka’s 1925 novel finds himself accused of a crime he did not commit.
2. The Castle

Kafka worked on this novel of social alienation while living in Prague Castle’s Golden Lane.
3. Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk

Hašek was so effective in sending up the army and the Austro-Hungarian empire that Czechs still have a hard time taking authority seriously.
4. Slavonic Epic

Art Nouveau master Alfons Mucha celebrates the Czech mythic past in this artwork.
5. R.U.R.

Čapek’s science-fiction play is a study of labour relations and social structures.
6. Grandmother

Author Božena Němcová based the narrator on her own grandmother, from whom she heard many of these stories.
7. Vltava

Smetana’s My Country are six tone poems celebrating Bohemia. The second follows the river’s course.
8. From the New World

With his 1893 ninth symphony, Dvořák incorporated the style of black folk songs.
9. Disturbing the Peace

Havel meditates on Communism and the values underlying Central Europe’s pursuit of democracy.
10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kundera’s non-linear tale of love, politics and the betrayals inherent in both.