SVŮJ I CIZÍ JÁCHYM TOPOL
Jáchym Topol – his own and strange

Changes of the reception of the writer's work in the Czech and European context

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a picture of how the reflection of Jáchym Topol´s work developed during the last twenty years. Ivo Říha focuses on the Czech literary and linguistic discourse while taking into account essays written by foreign authors, as well. He proceeds chronologically from the first half of the 1990s (the beginning of Topol´s career as a novelist) to the present. He tries to reflect various fundamental aspects that are explored by Czech and foreign bohemists. In a comparison of Czech and foreign reception of Topol´s works, the author concludes (inter alia) that if there is any visible difference between domestic and foreign professional reception of Topol´s works, then it lies in the fact that foreign literary scholars and linguists are much more considering the author's work as a whole – and / or they are trying to view it in a geographically broader context. On this count Ivo Říha emphasizes the importance of the text by Katharina Raabe „Když se zvedla mlha“ (When the fog lifted) – as well as other texts. Ivo Riha based the preparation of this study on his own work on the book Open Wounds. Selected Studies on Jáchym Topol´s Work (Torst, Praha 2013).

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