Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):66-88 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.005

Vyprávění utlačovaného města: Reprezentace Prahy v díle Jiřího Weila

Mirna ©olić1,2
1 Katedra bohemistiky, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Palackého, Kříľkovského 10, 771 80 Olomouc
2 School of Modern Languages and Cultures / Sgoil nan Nua-Chànan is nan Cultar, Hetherington Building, Rm. 320B, Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS, United Kingdom

Keywords: Novels by Jiří Weil, category of space, literary representation, topos of Prague

Narrating and Negotiating the Repressed City: Representations of Prague in Jiří Weil's Work

By playing with the conventions of representations of urban space of Prague, Jiří Weil's novels Life with a Star and Mendelssohn is on the Roof represent a specific, yet insufficiently explored, contribution to the scholarship mapping Prague texts in literature. Their main feature is the extent to which Prague as a city is constructed as an easily recognizable, and perhaps expected, topos, with all of its cultural and historical significance for the establishment of the national and cultural identity.

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