Regionalismus, plurikulturalita a vícejazyčnost nové středoevropské literatury
Regionalism, multiculturalism and multilingualism in recent Central European literature

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on textual multilingualism in contemporary Polish and Czech literature. This kind of multilingualism (also called linguistically mixed or hybrid literature) is interpreted as an expression of the new ethnic, cultural and linguistic mix in Central Europe. This article presents a summary of research to date into multilingualism. Taking the novel Obyčejné věci by Jan Vrak and lyric poetry by Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki as examples of the forms in which this phenomenon has appeared at the turn of the 20th and 21st century. It also raises the question of the translation and translatability of textual multilingualism.

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