Varianty Gellnerovy komedie Přístav manželství jako rozcestník jeho tvorby
Variants of Gellner’s comedy The Port of Marriage as a guide to his work

Summary/Abstract: This study is based on manuscripts from the literary remains of František Gellner and in part also on his preserved correspondence. Analysing various manuscript drafts of Gellner’s play Přístav manželství (“Port of Marriage”) and manuscripts thematically and chronologically related to the origination of this comedy (the majority of which have never been published), the author of this study strives to dynamize the evaluation of a period of Gellner’s work widely known in literary history largely thanks to Gellner’s important collection Radosti života (“The Pleasures of Life”); namely, from the perspective of the manuscripts it is possible to regard the period 1901–1905 as one of attempts by Gellner to shift the focus to larger epic works. A study of the development of a particular motif of the given play enables us to exemplify the way Gellner’s texts are formed and at the same time explain reasons for the general failure of Gellner’s comedy (and other larger texts of the later period). Thus, these texts, though they seem to be marginal from the point of view of literary criticism, are used here to explicate some of the circumstances of Gellner’s artistic style and the evolution of František Gellner as a creative personality.

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