Od Werthera po Wajda: rozprava o niekoľkých partikulárnych otázkach literárneho kánonu
From Werther to Wao: discourse on some particular questions of the literary canon

Summary/Abstract: The point of departure for the article is a discourse that aims to revise and reflect on particular questions closely related to the constitution, existence and reception of literary canon or as the case may be with one of its forms referred to by the given signifier taking into consideration the reception and differentiation process in literature and arts. In the first part of the text the author among other things rereads selected theoretical works on the questions of canon (by W. Wiesmüller, A. Fowler, H. Markiewicz) so that he could use the premise that canon is “what is recommended for the readers’ experience” (P. Zajac) as a point of departure in the second part. The author’s considerations are triggered by the publication 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die. Although the book materializes the essence of literary canon its notion is extended beyond the limits of one’s mortality and a “pragmatic dilemma what to avoid reading so that we would have time for reading” (H. Bloom). The interpretation part focuses on two novels – The Sorrows of Young Werther by J. W. Goethe and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by J. Diaz.

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