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Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):8-18 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.012
One of the basic categories which are applied on the interpretation of Jan Čep's work is the author's own credo called "dioecy", i.e., the concept of dual home, mostly differentiated as a notion of an inner and outer home. These notions acquire additional meanings particularly with a consideration of Čep's life experience, of his exile, and especially of his reflections about a true homeland or a "second homeland", however, these notions are essential in terms of reflecting his indigenous pilgrimage. Čep has developed this life-time and creative philosophy in his literary journalism and essays, most significantly in his late essayistic exile memoirs...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):19-27 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.013
The study attempts to compare Jan Čep's literary work with francophone "ruralist" authors (mainly Henri Pourrat, but also Jean Giono, Henri Bosco, Swiss Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz - he was in direct contact with several of them before his emigration to France and during his exile). Although they share many features typical of rural narrative (a lyrical evocation of natural elements, drastic viewing of psychological and social dramas), Čep distances himself very clearly from the temptations of a pagan vision that brought this group closer to a cultural programme of the conservative, even reactionary France. This distance can be partly explained by Čep's...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):28-38 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.014
Jan Čep both in his work and life experienced and reflected a feeling of lifelong anxiety caused by paradoxical dioecious nature of human existence. At the first sight it could seem that due to anxiety man is hopelessly lonely and closed in a monologue of an unshareable feeling of despair. According to Čep, situation of man in the world is essentially always tragical. The tragical pain of anxiety flows rather from subthreshold awareness of double anchorage of human existence that time to time breaks through on the surface of life via border situations of life. The feeling of Čepian dioecy comes out from revealing of the anthropological nature of an...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):39-50 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.015
The starting point of deliberations included in this article is Fučík's metaphor of "dual home", which has influenced the method of perception of Jan Čep's works and has put some emphasis on dualistic comprehension of all spatial and time categories in Čep's short stories. The aim of this article is to present a different moment of world's creation in Čep's works, especially in emigration short stories. Moreover, the aim is also to try to overcome the dual perception of reality and to add one more dimension - transcendence, which penetrates all space-time categories of Čep's worlds, therefore it puts all of them into metaphysical spheres. In the author's...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):51-61 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.016
The article shortly describes more general aspects of the writing in exile, especially in regard to the concept of nostalgia studied by Jean Starobinski. It examines the nostalgia by Jan Čep and Milada Součková and investigates the conception of "writing for one's self " as an important characteristic not only in exilic writing.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):62-79 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.017
The aim of the article is to analyse and interpret Gertruda Goepfertová's (born 1924) poetry. The author mentions her relationship with Jan Čep. Her first short stories (published in Akord in 1940's) are correlative of Čep's stories Lístky z alba (1944). While most of Čep's stories have a transcendental solution, her stories focus on things, senses, language and memory. Goepfertová wants to confirm things for present, not for eternity. The author of the article compares her poetry with Martin Heidegger's metaphor "poetically man dwells". Her fascination with landscape processes contrasts with her living in exile. In Goepfertová's poetry, there are...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):80-93 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.018
The paper presents an analysis of Vladimír Vokolek's poems that were written between the late 1940s and early l960s. It focuses on the theme of exile. The word "exile" has two meanings: loss of home and alternative home. Vokolek's verses apply to both of them. The exile becomes characteristic for the word and subject situation within the period mentioned above. Our attention is paid primarily to the transformation of poet's aims.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):94-104 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.019
My Sister anxiety, an autobiography of Jan Čep written first-hand in French, was the author's last attempt - fruitless - to gain the French public. It was published by the Christian Academy in Rome only after he died. Since it was issued in 1975 for the first time, some inaccuracies or even errors were spread over the origins of this posthumous autobiography of Čep. Thanks to a detailed research of the sources (an inedited diary, a type-written version of the French original), this paper rectifies these errors and helps to clarify the information on the genesis of My Sister anxiety, the structure of the manuscript and its dating, and the status of...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):105-128 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.020
We approach "Catholic literature" from the point of view of language, as opposed to the motivic/thematic or ideological approaches. We argue that the language (rooted in the tradition of Catholic culture) used in fiction to describe the experience of the sacred has its unique characteristics: suggestiveness, silencing, apophaty, the meaningfulness and frequency of biblical allusions, through which it relates to the dominant text and the core of Catholic religion. The essay uses the examples from the works of Jan Čep.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(2):129-133 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.021
The article presents memories of Čep's listener and later colleague who after Čep's death became the editor of his texts written for the Radio Free Europe broadcast.
