Jan Weiss

The House of a Thousand Floors - CEU Press Classics Jan Weiss

Jan Weiss shared the fate of tens of thousands of Czechs and Slovaks, by spending the decisive years of the birth of Czechoslovakia away from his homeland - first on the eastern WWI front, then from 1916 as a POW in Russia, later joining the Czechoslovak Legion (like his world famous colleague Jaroslav Haek). Upon his return to Prague, Weiss worked as a ministry clerk and began publishing in 1927.