Books in the Czech Literature series

Following the success of 2005 s Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century, Patrik Our edni k again confounds expectations with what seems, on the surface, to be a detective novel...

The End of the World Would Not Have Taken Place is Czech author Patrik Ourednik's second work originally written in French. Like the author, the narrator is a writer and translator writing a book about the end of the world, in which he reflects on life, death, war, and divine action to form a biting social critique.