The memory book The Prague Circle (1966) represents the last work of Max Brod, a well-known German writer, essayist and translator. The five chapters of this book, in which a friend of Franz Kafka and a leading personality of Prague's German writing authors narrates and reminisces, significantly exceed the boundaries of memoir literature and become a unique literary-historical work.

It is an engaging book and at the same time so factually rich that it remains an invaluable guide to Prague's German literature for Czech readers. In the Prague Circle, the human and literary destinies of not only the most famous protagonists (Kafka, Werfel, Rilke), but also personalities of three or four previous generations (from Maria Ebner-Eschenbach to Hugo Salus, Franz Adler, Victor Hadwiger, Paul Leppin and Oskar Wiener) come to life. It is a great merit of Max Brod that the literary public gets to know not only Franz Kafka, but also other German-speaking authors from Prague, with this small world inside the big Czech city.

The book is now published in a revised translation more than 30 years after the first Czech edition, with a new foreword by Professor Manfred Weinberg, director of the Kurt Krolop Center in Prague, and an afterword by Professor Steffen Höhne. In the apparatus of the book you will also find prefaces to older editions of the book by Eduard Goldstücker and Peter Demetz. – It is published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.