• Works by Josef Škvorecký (available in English)
• Secondary Works on Josef Škvorecký (available in English)

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Works by Josef Škvorecký (available in English)

• The Bass Saxophone
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• The Bride of Texas
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• The Cowards
  (from Amazon.com)
• Dvorak in Love: A Light-Hearted Dream
  (from Amazon.com)
• The End of Lieutenant Boruvka
  (from Amazon.com)
• The Engineer of Human Souls
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• Headed for the Blues: A Memoir
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• Jiri Menzel and the History of the Closely Watched Trains
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• The Miracle Game
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• Miss Silver's Past
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• The Republic of Whores: A Fragment from the Time of the Cults
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka: A Reactionary Tale of Crime and Detection
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• Sins for Father Knox
  (from Amazon.com)
• The Swell Season: A Text on the Most Important Things in Life
  (from Amazon.com), (from Amazon.co.uk)
• Talkin' Moscow Blues: Essays about Literature, Politics, Movies, and Jazz
  (from Amazon.com)
• The Tenor Saxophonist's Story
  (from Amazon.com)
• When Eve Was Naked
  (currently unavailable on Amazon)
  Read a story from this collection in CER.

 

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Secondary Works on Josef Škvorecký (available in English)

Books:

• Solecki, Sam (1994)
  The Achievement of Josef Skvorecky
  (from Amazon.com)
• Trensky, Paul I (1991)
  The Fiction of Josef Skvorecky
  (from Amazon.com)

Journal issues devoted to Josef Škvorecký:

• The Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol 17, No 1, Spring 1997.
• World Literature Today Vol 54, 1980.

Other articles:

• Chvatík, Květoslav, "Josef Švejk and Danny Smiřický"
  Scottish Slavonic Review. No 4, Spring 1985: pp 69-80.
• Jarovi, Robert, "The Art of Improvisation: An Interview with Josef Skvorecky"
  B&A: New Fiction. Vol 28, Fall 1997: pp 35-39.
• Kulyk Keefer, Janice, "Who's Afraid of Josef Skvorecky?: The 'Reactionary' Immigrant Writer in a Multicultural Canada"
  In Ethnic Literature and Culture in the USA, Canada, and Australia, ed Igor Maver (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996) pp 249-61.

 

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Selection by Julie Hansen and Charles D Sabatos

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See also:

• The short story "The End of Bull Mácha" by Josef Škvorecký
• CER's interview with Josef Škvorecký
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