Alegoria w czeskiej powieści historycznej lat 60. XX wieku

Author(s): Joanna Królak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7 (10)/2017

The article concerns the problem of allegory in two Czech historical novels from the beginning and the end of the 60s of the twentieth century: {Kladivo na čarodějnice} by Václav Kaplický and {Tovaryšstvo ježišovo} by Jiři Šotola. Both novels are also considered to be important political ‘clearing accounts’ novels. Application of allegory as a method of reception allows us to answer the question about the participation of the reader in the setting up of allegory in the Czech prose of the twentieth century. Artykuł dotyczy problemu alegorii w dwu czeskich powieściach historycznych z początku i z końca lat 60. XX wieku: {Kladivo na čarodějnice}, Vaclava Kaplickiego i {Tovaryšstvo ježišovo} Jiřiego Sotoli. Obie powieści są uznawane także za ważne powieści rozrachunkowe. Zastosowanie alegorezy jako metody recepcji pozwala odpowiedzieć na pytanie o udział czytelnika w ustanawianiu alegorii w czeskiej prozie dwudziestowiecznej.

S Kateřinou Tučkovou o jejím chystaném románu Bílá Voda

Author(s): Eva Vybíralová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 04/2020

Interview.

Cykly šprýmovných obrázků

Author(s): Pavel Kořínek / Language(s): Czech Issue: 52/2020

Most Czech comic strips (or cartoon series) appeared in the 20th century on the pages of various kinds of periodicals. They were traditionally to be found in occasional or regular, one-off or periodical newspaper and magazine serializations, and the cartoon series was, at least initially, perceived primarily as a magazine (or out-and-out journalistic) genre. From 1911, at the latest, when the Vilímek publishing house issued two large-format albums called Humoru kvítky pro hodné dítky (Jolly Little Flowers for Good Children), publishing platforms for more extensive one-off specialized publications began to appear at the same time. These were anthologies or collections of cartoon series, and (a little later) in more substantial book form, which premiered comic strips of both domestic and foreign provenance. This paper traces the early development and changes in these separate publication formats, focusing on the printing of cartoon series outside the context of periodicals. It records the advertising and self-defence strategies adopted by publishers and promoters when presenting and advertising non-traditional, ‘unsettled’ types of content (it thematizes, for example, the discrepancy between the formal changes and stated age inscription) and captures the gradual type differentiation of these formats (sets, collections, translation albums, and original, previously unprinted, extensive comic book works). It also addresses the rather fragmentary period critical reflection on the emerging forms of publication.

„Hrne se na nás lavina detektivek“

Author(s): Markéta Holanová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 52/2020

The paper deals with the publishing history of series in the detective fiction genre. In this sense, the series is perceived as a significant publishing gesture, with the potential to create and shape genre awareness. During the 1920s, there was a gradual increase in the number of published series of detective fiction literature and the number of publishers of this type of reading material. In the final years of the 1920s, there was a rapid increase in the number of books in genre-defined series that entered the book market. In addition to the increase in the number of published series, which can be interpreted as a movement along the horizontal axis, the author also observes a second shift, which occurred simultaneously on the axiological or value axis. The paper follows the repercussions of the shift in this second line of interpretation, describing the change in the character of the publishers who published such book series, which ranged from smaller companies that primarily published scientific and professional literature, through publishers with a portfolio of popular reading material, to publishers that aspired to publish artistically discerning literature.

Ze vzpomínek nakladatele Františka Svobody na meziválečná léta

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech Issue: 52/2020

The introductory paper presents a selected chapter from the handwritten memoirs of František Svoboda, a bookseller and publisher from Nusle, who became known in cultural spheres in the early 1920s when he began independent publishing activity. His company’s key book series in the category of fiction was Mladí autoři (Young Authors, 1923–1927), which focused on new authors and was first edited by the poet and critic A. M. Píša, followed by the novelist and publicist A. C. Nor. This publication presented more than two dozen original works by authors of the generation born around 1900 (e.g., the two editors, Konstantin Biebl, Lev Blatný, Adolf Hoffmeister, Jaroslav Hůlka, Jan Weiss, and Jiří Wolker) and gained a distinguished reputation. Svoboda also published the first volume of Most magazine and the Paprsek (Ray of Light) edition, which featured albums of graphic works by young artists (e.g., Jan Rambousek and Alois Rechziegel). The memoirs describe the beginnings of his publishing efforts in connection with his work for the Volná myšlenka publishing house and the many vicissitudes typical for new publishing businesses in the interwar period. Apart from his difficulty in obtaining a bookseller’s licence and the times of economic crisis of the interwar years, which resulted in a settlement with creditors in the late 1920s, the author also describes the decline and subsequent end of his own publishing activity. A separate theme of Svoboda’s memoirs provides a sense of his political engagement, first in connection with the Czechoslovak Socialist Party and later with his membership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Obrazová příloha II

Author(s): No name Anonymous / Language(s): Czech Issue: 52/2020

Obrazová příloha III

Author(s): No name Anonymous / Language(s): Czech Issue: 52/2020

Koten, Jiří: Poetika narativního komentáře: Rétorický vypravěč v české literatuře

Author(s): Klára Soukupová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 6/2021

Review of: Koten, Jiří: Poetics of the Narrative Commentary: Rhetorical Narrator in Czech Literature, Praha: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR – Brno: Host, 2020. 256 s.

Vječni Švejk

Author(s): Jaroslav Pecnik / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 26/2021

Ove se godine navršila 100. obljetnica od kako je 14. ožujka 1921. godine Jaroslav Hašek sa svojim »kamaradom« Frantom Sauerom počeo po žiškovskim pivnicama prodavati prve sveščiće Doživljaja dobrog vojnika Švejka koji su vremenom izrasli u mega-roman, jedno od najznačajnijih i najomiljenijih djela u svekolikoj povijesti svjetske književnosti, po značaju ravno Goetheovom Faustu, Cervantesovom Don Quijoteu, Shakespeareovom Hamletu ili Danteovoj Božanstvenoj komediji, dakle remek djelima naše civilizacije koja su postala kanonima i mjerom, odnosno kriterijima po kojima se vrednuje naša kultura u najširem smislu te riječi. Doživljaji dobrog vojnika Švejka do danas su prevedeni na više od 60 svjetskih jezika (uključujući i esperanto); fenomen Švejk, posebice otjelotvoren u maestralnoj likovnoj interpretaciji Josefa Lade (prvu verziju njegova lika nacrtao je na koricama tek objavljenog izdanja iz 1921.), a po izravnim uputama samog Hašeka, dosegao je slavu kao malo koje književno djelo napisano prije ili poslije toga.

NOVAC OD HITLERA

Author(s): Radka Denemarková / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2021

Prose written by Radka Denemarková: NOVAC OD HITLERA

MOGUĆNOSTI LJUBAVNOG ROMANA

Author(s): Jan Němec / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2021

Prose written by Jan Němec: MOGUĆNOSTI LJUBAVNOG ROMANA

Novac od Hitlera (Ljetna mozaika)

Author(s): Radka Denemarková / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 5-8/2020

Excerpt from the novel “Money from Hitler” written by Radka Denemarková.

Hana

Author(s): Alena Mornštajnová / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 5-8/2020

Excerpt from the novel “Hana” written by Alena Mornštajnová.

Mogućnosti ljubavnog romana

Author(s): Jan Němec / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 5-8/2020

Short stories written by Jan Němec: *indigoplava vrpca *tête-à-tête

»Zapadlí vlastenci« Karla Václava Raise

Author(s): František Všetička / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2022

Zapadlí vlastenci (1894) by K. V. Rais begins with temporal incipit, which frames the plot of the novel. The protagonists have birds’ nomina propria. The motif that goes through the whole work is a revelatory motif of a illegitimate child. Other aspects of the composition are diary-like and epistolar elements, as well as the anticipant’s character and significant chapter (13.). The prose work has a character of architectonic triad. From the morphological point of view, the author is close to Alois Jirásek and Julius Zeyer.

O mamince

Author(s): Michaela Jacobsenová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 53/2021

Celý život se s fenoménem maminka potýkám, v obdivu i obraně. Tahle hádanka bude patrně něco, co můj život podstatně poznamenalo. Maminčinou doménou byla slova. Svět se jí skládal převážně ze slov, tam se upírala její pozornost. A na knihy. Dodnes vzpomínám na fascinující procházky letním sázavským večerem, kdy nám převyprávěla celou Wellsovu Válku světů a já hltala každé slovo.

Z dvojhlasu k sobě

Author(s): Václav Daněk / Language(s): Czech Issue: 53/2021

Kultivovaná mladá dáma, jazykově vybavená, svým zvláštním způsobem zvídavosti obdařená, přestala psát básně – věřme jejím slovům – už v šestnácti letech, neboť jí to veršování připadalo příliš jednoduché. Zato své deníky – po tatínkově příkladu a nadělení – nikdy psát nepřestala. Přesedlala k próze. Po spoustě drobných povídek, milostných i vzpomínkových črt dospěla k dramatické novele i k románu. Pod Jonescovým vlivem k absurdnímu dramatu. A to už bylo něco! Něco příznačného?

Několik vzpomínek na Bohumilu Grögerovou

Author(s): Marek Stašek / Language(s): Czech Issue: 53/2021

Vlastně si ani nedovedu vzpomenout, kdy přesně jsem se s Bohumilou Grögerovou setkal poprvé. Bylo to asi někdy na jaře roku 2003, tedy až po smrti Josefa Hiršala, jehož básnickou sbírkou Básně – třásně – rohypnol (1998) naše Edice současné české poezie zahájila svoji činnost. V roce 2003 jsme uvažovali o dalších knížkách, které vydáme, a bylo jen nasnadě, že volba padla na B. Grögerovou, jež byla přímo neoddělitelně spjata s dílem a životem J. Hiršala. Nebylo nikterak obtížné navázat kontakt, protože Ivan Wernisch se po dlouhou dobu úzce přátelil s Hiršalem a samozřejmě Grögerovou dobře znal.

Čekání na paní Godotovou v Bielefeldu

Author(s): Jan Faktor / Language(s): Czech Issue: 53/2021

Popsat příběh seznámení s Josefem Hiršalem a Bohumilou Grögerovou epicky by nemělo moc velký smysl. Já o nich samozřejmě věděl, seznámili jsme se pak ale asi až po dvaceti letech. O to intenzivněji jsme nakonec naše pravidelná setkání v devadesátých letech prožívali.

Üksinduse maastikud Milan Kundera, Bohumil Hrabali ja Mati Undi teostes: “Olemise talumatu kergus”, “Liiga vali üksindus”, “Sügisball”

Author(s): Emma Lotta Lõhmus / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 83/2022

The feeling of loneliness, the topicality of which is gradually increasing in time, requires more and more different approaches for understanding it. Fiction is one of the possible ways to untangle this feeling in a versatile, poetic manner. The writer Milan Kundera in his novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, Bohumil Hrabal in his story “Too Loud a Solitude”, and Mati Unt in his novel “Autumn Ball” have discussed loneliness from different angles, which, put together, enable us to build up a broad picture of this controversial feeling. As the research method, close reading and text analysis were used. The article introduces the psychological concept of loneliness and its types and analyses the literary works based on American philosopher Rubin Gotesky’s classification of loneliness. The article aims to find out what types of loneliness are discussed in the books and in what way they are manifested. All the books analysed in the article present situations and trains of thoughts in which the presence of loneliness is clearly perceivable. However, the border between the different types of loneliness is somewhat blurred. All these works include situations in which both forced and existential loneliness are present. There are also cases of intertwining physical and voluntary loneliness, but these are not the only combinations. Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” presents the greatest number of philosophical ideas related to loneliness; in Hrabal’s story “Too Loud a Solitude” successive abandonments in human relationships can clearly be noticed, and in Unt’s “Autumn Ball” the urban space bursting with existential loneliness enforces itself at the very beginning, casting a shadow on all the characters and their performance. Each of these works refers to loneliness both in a positive and negative key and the characters are often controversial.