Marketa Lazarová is a Czech novel, written by Vladislav Vančura.

Roman Jakobson wrote in his review "The novel's style, somewhat romantically tinted, again and again surprises with amazing simplicity, density and liveliness.

"[2] Some critics, like Václav Renč, thought that parts where Vančura broke the Fourth wall were intrusive.

Just as scattered rays converge in a single golden strand in the lens of a magnifying glass, in Marketa Lazarová Vančura's creative endeavors converge in a single, undivided stream.

From 2002 to 2004 a version directed by Jan Antonín Pitínský with music by Vladimír Franz ran in National Theatre in Prague.