Moc totalitní, ale ne totální? Úvahy o románu „Žert“ Milana Kundery a jeho filmové adaptaci
Totalitarian, but not total power? Reflections on Milan Kundera’s novel "The Joke" and its film adaptation
Author(s): Agnieszka Janiec-NyitraiSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Czech Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: "Totalitarianism"; "Total institution"; "Homo sovieticus"; "Milan Kundera"; "Jaromil Jireš";
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the piece is to characterize the ways in which the novel The Joke (1967) by MilanKundera and its film adaptation (directed by Jaromil Jireš, 1968) show the relationshipbetween man and totalitarian power. The study depicts the means by which the communistsociety used mechanisms of re-education of the individual. The key concepts applied for thisanalysis are homo sovieticus (Józef Tischner) and total institution (Erving Goffman). The goalof the study is to broaden the understanding of totalitarianism from a narrow political conceptto philosophical and sociological meaning.
Journal: World Literature Studies
- Issue Year: 11/2019
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 42-50
- Page Count: 9
- Language: Czech