Bohemia to the Czech Republic

BOHEMIA is the link to my up-dated article about the history of Bohemia and the rise of the Czech Republic.

Czech Absinth: How to Drink It

The Czech, or Bohemian, style of Absinth is different than the style made famous in Paris 100 years ago. First, it is spelled differently; there is no "e" at the end. Secondly, it contains no anise or fennel. And last, the method of drinking it is very different. For a step by step guide to drinking it, click HERE>>>

Franz Kafka, a Prague Writer

Franz Kafka was a novelist, whose major works are universally considered to be among the most important of the 20th century.

His novella "The Metamorphosis" and his novel "The Trial" are required reading at nearly every university.

When he died at the age of 40, however, Kafka was basically an unpublished author. Most of his work was never finished and not published until after his death.

Born in 1883 into a middle-class Jewish family in the Jewish ghetto of Prague at a time when Prague was an administrative outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kafka grew up speaking German in a city whose inhabitants mostly spoke Czech. This relationship, being a cultural and linguistic outsider in the city of his own birth, informs the sense of isolation and hopelessness that pervades his written work.

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