Duszny mikroświat. Obraz relacji rodzinnych w powieściach Petry Soukupovej i Zośki Papużanki
An Oppressive Micro-World. The Picture of Family Relationsin the Novels of Petra Soukupová and Zośka Papużanka

Summary/Abstract: Both in the Polish as well as in the Czech literature after 1989, the number of family narrative increases, which – according to many researchers – might be successfully used to observe social transformations. This article undertakes such attempt in regard to two novels – Szopka [Farce] by Zośka Papużanka and Pod śniegiem [Under the Snow] by Petra Soukupová. They are analysed (plot- and language-wise) from the comparative perspective, moreover – in accordance with the opinions of Agnieszka Mrozik, Anna Pekaniec and Eva Klíčová – they are treated as a document pertaining to Polish and Czech realities as well as the difference in both nations’ mentalities. Described were also a different methods, by which both texts deconstruct myth of happy family as well as represent a broader sociocultural phenomena – the Polish Romantic tradition and the Czech escape from the public into a private sphere.

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