Read The Metamorphosis

Josef K. is arrested for something nobody will name; the word Kafkaesque comes from here.

K. tries to reach the authorities in a snowbound village and never does; unfinished, mid-sentence.

Two girls named Marie decide to be as bad as the world; Vera Chytilova's anarchic collage.

An officer demonstrates the machine that writes a condemned man's sentence into his back over twelve hours.

Tomas, Tereza and Sabina in Prague 1968; Kundera's novel of philosophy and sex.

An idiot, or a genius, in the Austro-Hungarian army; the funniest book about a war.

A novel you can read in two orders; Cortazar's Paris and Buenos Aires.

Prague under mechanical apartheid; the best level design in the series.