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F OREWORDby Arthur MillerI read Karel Capek for the first time when I was a college student a long time ago in the Thirties. There was no writer like himno one who so blithely assumed that the common realities were not as fixed and irrevocable as one imagined. Without adopting any extraordinary...

INTRODUCTION Vladimír Páral came to literature in the mid-1960s, a time of great promise and development in Czechoslovak culture, early in the Prague Spring that would end in 1968. It was a time when a whole generation of young Czech writers were reaching maturity: Milan Kundera, Josef...