The sections I like the best are where his cities overlap, blend into something strange and new. Memories and actualities are one. Paris is soaked in Prague, Prague in Paris as the memories swirl in Nezval’s liquid imagination.

— Richard Clegg, Bookmunch

Nezval’s writing style mirrors the kind of critical-poetic journalism with which surrealists captured the currents of cities—particularly their marvelous, disorienting, delirious, or dreamlike aspects. A Prague Flâneur is replete with historical descriptions of this or that street, building, restaurant, or café, and how they played in Nezval’s life— from his days as a poor, hungry university student to his rise as a literary figure—as well as brief sketches of writers and artists important to him. As he describes it, Prague takes on a multiform, resonant charge, socially proscribed but personally invented.

— Allan Graubard, Rain Taxi

The long-awaited English translation of Czech Surrealist poet Vítězslav Nezval’s seminal work of poetic prose, A Prague Flaneur is fascinating and revealing: of Nezval, Prague, interwar politics, poetry, urbane bohemianism and romance. The writing (and translation) here is often beautiful and constantly inspiring, as Nezval’s meandering sentences encapsulate his life and life in his adopted city.

— Stephan Delbos, B-O-D-Y

So A Prague Flâneuris a book which provides many riches; a glimpse of Prague at a point just before catastrophe; a look at the complex personal politics which existed at the time; and an exploration of the self-censorship which took place when invasion seemed imminent. It makes for an engrossing book [...]

— Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings

A Prague Flâneur is a lovely document of its times and, especially, place, and an appealing personal account, Nezval a very good guide also to the feel of the place -- and parts of the artistic scene there (and beyond) as well.

— The Complete Review