Ve jménu přátelství
In the name of friendship

Jan Mukařovský on Vladislav Vančura

Summary/Abstract: This study describes the origin and development of the friendship between the literary scholar Jan Mukařovský (1891–1975) and the writer Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942). Mukařovskýʼs interpretations of Vančuraʼs literary works are the main focus of the study. Both Mukařovskýʼs published works and texts that were never published (e.g. university lectures) are analysed. On the basis of archival research, the author of the study proves that Mukařovský analysed Vančuraʼs work much earlier than he published his first-ever work on Vančura in 1934. In the course of the 1940s to 1960s, Mukařovský published many texts on Vančura in which he remembered Vančura as a friend, poet, Communist and anti-fascist activist. Vančuraʼs image changed gradually — in line with what Mukařovský had selected and emphasized from his life and work at the time. An analysis of the changes in Mukařovskýʼs interpretations forms the basis for the second part of the study.

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