Ajourney through the literatures of Europe. 8: Czechoslovakia. Julian Evans travels to Prague and Bratislava in search of the novelists who work in the shadow of Franz Kafka. He meets Czech writers Ivan Klima , Michal Viewegh and Jachym Topal , all of whom have works translated into English, as well as Slovak satirists Pavel Vilikovsky and Peter Pistanek - as yet unavailable in translation.