IMIDŽ IMAGINACE A IMIDŽ IDEOLOGIE (NAD JEDNÍM ZAPOMENUTÝM ROMÁNEM SONJI ŠPÁLOVÉ)
IMAGE OFIMAGINATION AND IMAGE OFIDEOLOGY (ON A FORGOTTEN NOVEL BY SONJA ŠPÁLOVÁ)

Summary/Abstract: The woman-writer Sonja Špálová (1898–1994) became famous especially for biographical novels on the artists of the 19th century. It is her attempts of the genre of social novels that have been forgotten and that are of much interest. It holds true of a prose Polyxena, which was written during the 2nd World War, and especially a novel Petruška a soudruzi (“Petruška and Comrades”) (the girl name Petruška being the diminutive of Petronila). In this novel, very special from the point of view of a theme, Špálová has combined the scheme of educational narrative and means of the topical political novel – and a story of the young woman who gets to know the backstage life of the then ideological attitudes and ideological crimes. This Špálová’s novel has been “excised” of the history of the Czech literature and after 1948 Špálová has never returned to the social and ideological problems.

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