For The Pied Piper Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous pipeplaying ratcatcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame for his story of a mysterious wanderer outcast and wouldbe revolutionarya dreamer typical of fin de siecle Czech literature who serves Dyk as a timely expression of the conflict between the petty concerns of bourgeois nineteenthcentury society and the coming artistic generation. Impeccably rendered into English by Ma