Top 10 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.
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2. The Castle
Kafka worked on this novel of social alienation while living in Prague Castle’s Golden Lane.
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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.
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4. Slavonic Epic
Art Nouveau master Alfons Mucha celebrates the Czech mythic past in this artwork.
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5. R.U.R.
Čapek’s science-fiction play is a study of labour relations and social structures.
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6. Grandmother
Author Božena Němcová based the narrator on her own grandmother, from whom she heard many of these stories.
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7. Vltava
Smetana’s My Country are six tone poems celebrating Bohemia. The second follows the river’s course.
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8. From the New World
With his 1893 ninth symphony, Dvořák incorporated the style of black folk songs.
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9. Disturbing the Peace
Havel meditates on Communism and the values underlying Central Europe’s pursuit of democracy.
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10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kundera’s non-linear tale of love, politics and the betrayals inherent in both.
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