Prague, in 2017 the fifth most visited city in Europe – which boasts an influx of both visiting tourists & long-term dwellers from abroad – has become a major market in English-language books, including both the imported original English publications (notice the thriving English sections of every major Prague bookshop) & Czech translations of foreign-language fiction. At Argo, the Gallimard of Czech publishing, writing in translation comprises 70% of the entire book production. This of course should come as no surprise a century after this city became the capital of the newly established Czechoslovak state (in itself an internationalist project). Almost exactly a hundred years ago, Prague emerged from WW1 as the seat of one of the oldest & largest