This is an article on the 1945 novel, for the 1970 film see Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (film).

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (or Valerie a týden divů) is a novel by surrealist Czech writer Vítězslav Nezval

Vítezslav Nezval

Vítězslav Nezval was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia....

, first published in 1945. It was made into a 1970 Czech

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 film directed by Jaromil Jireš.

With this novel, Nezval explored the gothic themes and settings of such novels as Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...

's Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

 and M. G. Lewis' The Monk

The Monk

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. It was written before the author turned 20, in the space of 10 weeks.-Characters:...

, as well as F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu (based on Dracula

Dracula

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 by Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula...

).

The novel has long been available in Czech

Czech language

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. The recently published English

English language

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 edition features the illustrations by Kamil Lhotak that appeared in the original edition.

Adaptations in other media

The 1970 film adaptation Valerie a týden divů

Valerie a týden divu

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders The 1970 film adaptation of Valerie a týden divů was shot in 1969 starring the then 13-year-old Jaroslava Schallerová as Valerie, with a supporting cast of Helena Anýžová, Karel Engel, Jan Klusák, Petr Kopriva, among others. It was filmed in the Czech town of...

, directed by Jaromil Jireš, starred the then 13-year-old Jaroslava Schallerová

Jaroslava Schallerová

Jaroslava Schallerová was a popular Czech film star during the 1970s. Her film debut was at the age of 13 in the Czech New Wave classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Her film career spanned the 1970s and continued intermittently into the 1990s.-Filmography:* Valerie a týden divu ......

as Valerie.