Josef Škvorecký, Milwaukee ve státě Wisconsin, 1979.

A large Czech community lived in Milwaukee at the end of the 19th century, and part of Škvorecký’s novel Scherzo capriccioso, about the composer Antonín Dvořák, is set there.

Subject:	Voices from Afar
Title:	Josef Škvorecký, Milwaukee ve státě Wisconsin, 1979.
Licence:	Free license

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Diviš, Ivan: Turn the Horses Around! (1988)

Diviš, Ivan: The City of Parrots. (Dream records from 1905–1987) (1988)

Diviš, Ivan: The Theory of Reliability (1972)

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Škvorecký, Josef: The Engineer of Human Souls. Part II of the novel. (1977)

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Josef Škvorecký, Toronto 1970.

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Kohout, Pavel: Where the Dog Is Buried. Memoir-novel. (1987)

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Gruša, Jiří: The Questionnaire: Or Prayer for a Town and a Friend (1978)

Gruša, Jiří: Doctor Kokes, Master of the Virgin (1984)

Gruša, Jiří: The Queen´s Gambit (1984)

Gruša, Jiří: A letter from Jiří Gruša (Bonn) to Jan Vladislav (Paris), probably from around 1983.

Kryl, Karel: (From Under the Table) Collected Works. (1978)

Karel Kryl at a gathering in Franken, probably in the early 1980s.

Richterová, Sylvie: Returns and Other Losses (1978)

Richterová, Sylvie: Topography (1983)

Silvie Richterová, Praha 1995.

A postcard from Sylvie Richterová (Rome) addressed to Jan Vladislav (Paris), dated 24 January 1985.

Vladimíra Čerepková, France, the 1970s. Photo Pierre Helzel.

Manuscripts of poems by Vladimíra Čerepková.