Czech Fiction from the Post-Kundera Generation The opening up of the Prague Spring in the mid-1960s set off one of the great literary explosions of this century, led by such writers as Kundera, Havel, Hrabal and Skvorecky. This timely collection looks at what has been happening since the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and presents stories and novel excerpts by the best and most representative of the new breed of young Czech writers.