PROSTOR VERSUS MAPA. „SELHÁNÍ MAPY“ JAKO TOPOS A METAFORA V TEXTECH TEREZY BRDEČKOVÉ
SPACE VERSUS MAP. THE „MAP FAILURE“ AS TOPOS AND METAPHOR IN THE TEXTS OF TEREZA BRDEČKOVÁ

Summary/Abstract: The subject of map, mapping and the cartographical imagination represents one of the prominent literary topoi in the context of the actual spatial turn. This topic plays an prominent role in the prosaic works Slepé mapy (Blind maps, 2006) and Alhambra (2010), written by the contemporary Czech author Tereza Brdečková. Her texts use the tension between the „crisis of the map“ on one side and the proliferation of the metaphor of „mapping“ in the actual metacartographic discourse on the other. Against this background, Brdečková establishes a friction between space and map on two levels. The map as a tool developed for representation of geographical spaces has no established place in the social space, and thus is dysfunctional (1). The more so, the map keeps failing as an orientation medium in the postmodern society which got out of any order, and so of any (i.e. also the cartographical) type of record (2). Consequently the map as a symbol of former order functions at the same time as an instrument of social criticism by T. Brdečková.

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