DVA ROMÁNY TÉMŠŘ VELIKÉ, ITEM: PROKLETÉ
TWO ALMOST GREAT NOVELS, ITEM: CURSED
Author(s): Vladimír NovotnýSubject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Czech literature of the turn of the 20th and the 21st century; national literature; mediocracy; cult of the reader; “cursed” novels; Eugen Liška; Pavel Rejchrt; Petr Koudelka
Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, mediocracy focuses on propaganda of chosen writers and their titles, while other works of fiction vanish from cultural memory, although they could be significant or unjustly omitted texts of contemporary national literature. In the Czech prose, we could perceive a novelist and feuilletonist Petr Koudelka (born 1942) as being a part of this ostracism. A common device of his novels is an intentional “distinction”, and so they are – put hyperbolically – “cursed”.
Journal: Studia et Documenta Slavica
- Issue Year: 4/2017
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 35-45
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Czech
