Od textu k dílu, od svědectví k příběhu.
From the text to the work — from the testimony to the story.

Correspondence between National Revival authors in the hands of present-day editors

Summary/Abstract: This study analyses the editorial strategies deployed on the complete, critically verified edition of correspondence between two prominent 19th century writers, Božena Němcová and Karel Havlíček Borovský (the editions are recent: the first came about 2003–2007, while so far only the first volume for 2016 is available from the second one). In the opinion of the author the concentrated material provided the editors with a highly challenging task, as it required not only the application of specific textological procedures, but it also raised the issue of the overall conception of editorial work. Its basis was the more or less acknowledged effort to reconcile the twofold, apparently contradictory, options for presenting a private letter, when on the one hand the letter is conceived as a valuable historical source presenting various cultural, political and social contexts of the period and on the other hand it can be understood as a literary work of its kind (particularly if its author is a creative individual such as Němcová and Havlíček).

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