*简体中文完整版 *捷克作家伊凡·克里玛思考威权与民主的思想杰作。“因为我创造，所以我反抗死亡。我建立一座比铜还持久的纪念碑。” *一座充满悖谬与磨难终究寻获自由的城市，一个由卡夫卡、哈谢克、哈维尔建立的精神家园。 *“我花了相当时间才完全明白，通常并不是善与恶的力量在互相战斗，而仅仅是两种不同的恶的力量，它们在比赛谁能控制世界。” *“文学并不是必须四处搜寻政治现实，或者为更换来更换去的制度担忧，它可以超越它们，同时仍然去回答制度在人们中间引起的问题。这就是我从卡夫卡中引出的最重要的教导。” “对布拉格的精神和面貌最具影响力的不是自由，而是不自由，是生活的奴役，是许多耻辱的失败和野蛮的军事占领。世纪之交的布拉格已不再存在，那些记得这个时期的人也不再存在。犹太人被杀害，德国人被流放，许多伟大人物被驱逐后散居在世界各地，小店铺和咖啡馆关闭：这就是布拉格带给新世纪的遗产。 如果布拉格还仍然存在，还没有失去它的魅力或美，那是因为它非常结实，像它的人民一样，一直坚持他们不屈不挠的精神。” 《布拉格精神》是捷克作家伊凡·克里玛著名评论集，收录了他为《格兰塔》写作却无法在捷克国内发表的文章，以及90年代在国际文学会议上的演讲内容，首次出版即为英文版。作品分为五个部分，包括克里玛在集中营度过的童年，对捷克历史上几个重要转折点的评论，以及1968、1989年前后社会环境与思想上的变化。在同名文章《布拉格精神》中，克里玛描述了这座由卡夫卡、哈谢克、哈维尔等人建立起来的精神家园，它“悖谬”、文化丰富、屡经灾难却始终乐观。在菲利普·罗斯和他的对话录《重返布拉格》中，克里玛谈论了当代捷克知识界对瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔和米兰·昆德拉这两位享有国际盛誉的作家的看法。最后一个部分《刀剑在逼近》详细分析了卡夫卡的人生、作品与书中人物，是克里玛对卡夫卡的精彩评传。

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...

Lewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.