„Slovo po slovu touží…“: Řeč, psaní a paměť v prózách Bohumily Grögerové a Daniely Hodrové
“A word yearning for a word...”: Speech, writing and memory in the fiction of Bohumila Grögerová and Daniela Hodrová

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this paper is the mutual representation of the process of artistic writing in the memoirs of Bohumila Grögerová ‘Můj labyrint’ [My Labyrinth] and in the novel ‘Točité věty’ [Winding Sentences] by Daniela Hodrová, which came into existence concurrently with the two authors in close contact. Other pieces by these authors, though of different genres, may be read as an artistic dialogue as well: a dialogue with mythologies, historical figures and cultural traditions, the values and knowledge that these authors share and represent, sometimes in a similar way and sometimes in a different one, while employing narrative strategies typical both of modernist and postmodernist poetics, balancing between dream and reality, fictionality, fictionalization and authenticity. A selection of topics (language, speech, writing; individual and collective; textual subjects; myth and novel; memory and oblivion) are analyzed, and a comparison of modes of representation and their functions in the texts as related to the world of ideas of both authors is undertaken.

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