Útěk do tmy — o tělesnosti a umírání v románu Anny Bolavé Do tmy
Escape into darkness — corporeality and dying in Anna Bolavá’s novel Do tmy (Into Darkness)

Summary/Abstract: Anna Bolavá’s prose debut Into Darkness presents an extraordinary picture of neurosis and an extraordinary record of the psychosomatic disintegration of man in the contemporary world. The narration is conducted in the first person, which brings with it a number of interpretative implications. In my reflections I have endeavoured to adhere to the subject areas proposed by the author: the disintegration of Anna’s world, escape from reality, corporeality, dying and death. In other words, I view the work from the perspective of the dominant themes in the novel. With this in mind, the interpretive framework is defined by the philosophical conceptions of dying and death — particularly those involving Epicureanism, which reject the real existence of death (Epicurus), thanatological considerations of the impossibility of thinking of death (Zygmunt Bauman), maladic discourse in the sense of analysing the phenomenon of illness and dying in language, as well as the theory of “staring” described in detail by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.

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