My – kobieta, pisarka. Metafora kobiecego losu w utworze {Knížka s červeným obalem} Alexandry Berkovej
We – a woman, a writer. The metaphor of a woman’s fate in {Knížka s červeným obalem} by Alexandra Berková

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to re-interpret {Knížka s červeným obalem} by Alexandra Berková which is shown as a text having very strong connotations with works of European literature. The author of the article indicates many intertextual references that can be found in the Berkova’s text both on the intertexual, as well as hypertextual level (according to Gérarde Genetta’s thypology), which relate to the output of writers such as primarily James Joyce, but also Bohumil Hrabal, Josef Škvorecký or Giacomo Boccacio. Despite previous classification of {Knížka s červeným obalem} as a short stories cycle, the author proves that the text is a novel that reflects the scheme of a {Bildungsroman} and a metaphorical picture of women’s experiences, women who live through each stage of their lives and at the same time search for the possibility of expressing themselves in the text of culture. The article discusses also the issue of écriture feminine and the question whether Berkova’s text can be classified as “women’s writing”.

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