From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Švejk: A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture

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i From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Švejk A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture trev01.indd 1 05-09-06 03:22:30 ii trev01.indd 2 05-09-06 03:22:32 iii From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Švejk A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture ANDREW ROBERTS Central European University Press Budapest New York trev01.indd 3 05-09-06 03:22:33 iv©2005 by Andrew Roberts Published in 2005 by Central European University Press An imprint of the Central European University Share Company Nádor utca 11, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36-1-327-3138 or 327-3000 Fax: +36-1-327-3183 E-mail: ceupress@ceu.hu Website: www.ceupress.com 400 West 59th Street, New York NY 10019, USA Tel: +1-212-547-6932 Fax: +1-646-557-2416 E-mail: mgreenwald@sorosny.org All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the permission of the Publisher. ISBN 963 7326 27 8 paperback Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roberts, Andrew Lawrence, 1970From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Svejk : a dictionary of Czech popular culture / by Andrew Roberts. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 963732626X 1. Popular culture--Czech Republic--Dictionaries. I.Title. DB2244.R63 2005 306’.094371’03--dc22 2005023289 Printed in Hungary by Akadémiai Nyomda, Martonvásár trev01.indd 4 05-09-06 03:22:35 v To Lenka and Radko for showing me what it means to be a Czech trev01.indd 5 05-09-06 03:22:35 vi trev01.indd 6 05-09-06 03:22:35 ...