Nieznośny ciężar ciała. K moři Petry Soukupovej
Unbearable body weight. K moři Petry Soukupovej

Author(s): Dorota Żygadło-Czopnik
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article relates to issues of the body in contemporary culture, as seen in the debut novel by a Czech writer, Petra Soukupová. She has been hailed in the Czech Republic as “the best‑selling author of her generation”. An original talent has revealed itself in the Czech literature. In the center of the author’s story in the prose of K moři, there are the lives of several protagonists: ordinary people mutually connected by formal familial ties, nevertheless quite distant to each other despite of them. The narrative of Petra Soukupova’s first book is carried out somewhat against the body, its imperfection, transience, and fragmentation. The protagonists, confined within the limits of their bodies, realize first of all their own mortality, temporality, and limits.

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