KAREL ČAPEK I JEGO TWÓRCZOŚĆ W SPORACH O CZESKI KANON LITERACKI PO ROKU 1948
The life and work of Karel Čapek in disputes over the post-1948 literary canon

Summary/Abstract: Based on the example of two literary museums, the present study attempts to depict the dispute over the canonization of Karel Čapek in Czech literature after 1948. The first part of the paper focuses on the dispute itself, summarizing the two primary discourses of the period, which affected the form of the exhibition displays on Karel Čapek. The following two parts focus on the promotion of the canon in practice. The dispute under review is first reconstructed on the basis of archive documents and then interpreted as a confrontation between the central institution (PNP – the Museum of Czech Literature, directly under the Ministry of Culture) and the local institutions (the Karel Čapek Museum in Malé Svatoňovice established by the Čapek Brothers Society, which was based on First Republic humanitarian ideals).

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