PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lollok, Marek
TI  - Intercultural Prose and the Image of Culture Shock in Contemporary Czech Literature
DP  - 2024 Nov 24
TA  - Bohemica Olomucensia
PG  - 12--31
VI  - 16
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/bo.2024.005
IS  - 1803876X
AB  - The paper explores the topic of intercultural prose as a highly productive and differentiated stream of contemporary Czech literature. Their authors draw inspiration mainly from their own biographies, emphasizing various sub-themes in different genre modifications. The common base of these works is some kind of confrontation of different cultures, mostly represented by the subjective perspective of a particular character, staying often "on the verge", taking the role of an observer or outsider. A frequent motif is the phenomenon of culture shock in its various stages and forms, as a natural reaction to encountering another/different/foreign culture. In 2022, several intercultural prose novels were published; in our paper we contextualize and characterize the novels Jsem jejich bůh by Josef Pánek and Jolka by Jana Guljuškina, which we consider to be the most significant in the field.