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Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):10-26 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.031
The topic of the study is to ask several questions that ask about the situation of contemporary literary criticism. The context of literary criticism of the 19th century is also used to analyze the current state, only sketched in this study, again only in selected texts. The purpose is to seek answers to the relationship between literary criticism and literary science. The author of the study asks whether there are professional meetings that are based on critical work. In his opinion, one such meeting is the annual meeting in Olomouc called "Price Balance".
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):28-42 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.032
The paper Vitka - Kateřina Tučková's drama debut deals with the theatre play Vitka by one of the most successful young Czech novelists Kateřina Tučková. The main character of this play is inspired by the Czech music composer and conductor Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940) who died tragically at the age of twenty five years. This paper analyzes some of the main features of Tučková's play and, besides other things, particularly focuses on the strategies and means of language supporting the authenticity impression. It also considers a broader theatre and dramatical context as well as resources that Kateřina Tučková exploated as a basis for her text.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):44-52 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.033
In the introduction, the study discusses why the prose writer Pavel Vilikovský is a key personality of Slovak post-modern literature. Afterwards, attention is turned to his novel Krásna strojvodkyňa, krutá vojvodkyňa [Beautiful Engineer, Cruel Duchess]. Semantic fields of the nouns and adjectives included in the title are explained and connected with the semantics of the novel as a whole. The study observes that the discussed text is a sort of collage comprised of multiple levels or layers. The first part of the text consists of what is essentially a banal story of Ivan whose marriage is going through a crisis, which is why he finds himself a mistress....
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):54-60 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.034
The paper deals with two novels written by Dita Táborská (*1981), a newcomer in contemporary Czech literature. Her literary works Malinka (2017) and Běsa (2018) are connected with the same topic and some of the figures. We can determine her proses as psychological and social novels with the dominant topic of interpersonal relations, especially among parents and their children (also adoptive ones). The author of the paper analyses especially narrative methods and construction of the main figures in Táborská's novels and also summarizes their critical reception.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):62-69 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.035
The text brings the author's biography of the regional writer Klára Gočárová and deals in detail with her trilogy Voslí můstky. It reveals the genre fusion and put Gočárová's texts in the context of tradition of humorous and memoir literature.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):70-81 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.036
The first part of the article analyzes and interprets the prose debut of Lucie Faulerová Lapači prachu in order to present the qualities and assets of this work, which should have been taken into account by various Czech literary awards. The second part of the article points out that the author's second prose called Smrtholka seems to be the text less artistically succesful and convincing than Lapači prachu - despite the fact it shares a number of elements, features and procedures with the first work, and despite the fact it is definitely one of the superior works in the context of Czech contemporary literature.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):82-95 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.037
The article considers the awarded books Magnesia litera in the category of children's literature between 2009 and 2019. This mediated award largely contributes not only to shaping the image of Czech literature among the general public, but also affects book sales. We are therefore interested in what books, what genres and especially what qualities were awarded in the monitored decade.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):96-105 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.038
In his study, Ivo Harak deals with work and life of current regional poet Petr Musilek. Harak introduces reasons why Musilek has not been given much credit and public notice as a writer and why there has not been any critical reception and evaluation of Musilek's work. Harak also analyses both Musilek's qualities and weaker points.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):106-112 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.039
The article deals with the reception of Michael Doubek's anti-utopian novel Nepřizpůsobivost (Inadaptability). Article points out the contradictions between the reception and the meaning of the text, especially its simplification and one-sided ideological action.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):114-125 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.040
Michael Doubek's novel was awarded by the Union of Czech Writers as the prose of 2017. In my contribution I offer an interpretation of Doubek's novel, which takes into account the closure of this work in the circle of related writers. Through the concept of Louis Althusser (ideological interpellation), I try to show how the characters of this novel try to break free from the post-capitalist, dystopian world and penetrate into a new, liberated reality.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):128-144 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.041
The aim of the study is to outline the characteristics of the work of J. E. Frič. His work is a significant example of the Moravian Christian underground and combines religious themes and those based on the tradition of "beat generation". Another aim of the study is to remind the importance of the meeting "Price Balance", which allows to professionally analyze and describe those forms of literary work and such personalities that are not in the center of todayʼs research interest. These personalities also represent an essential component of Czech literature.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):146-156 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.042
The study is focused on the identification of artistic and aesthetic values of the biographical novel Gen. M. R. Štefánik (2018) written by Mariana Čengel Solčanská. The author is a well-known director of several successful movies such as Únos (Kidnapping, 2017) and Sviňa (Scumbag, 2019). In her novel about an important Slovak politician and astronomer, she was also able to apply the strategies distinctive for film art. The novel is characterized by increased drama and a constant alternation of mini-stories, ending with a point. These features of the prose text are reminiscent of editing and montage from film art, which makes the novel an excellent...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):158-171 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.043
The paper deals with the last Ivana Dobrakovova's prose Matky a kamionisti (2018). At first we analyse specific poetological aspects of her writing. We focuse on modeling of protagonists in five proses ("Otec", "Ivana", "Olivia", "Lara" and "Veronika"), predominantly on relationship between main character and her father, motives of body and sexuality and symptoms of mentally sick heroines. With help of interdisciplinary knowledge from psychiatry it is possible to establish accurate, medical diagnoses of literary characters. This approach offers a more detailed analyse of Dobrakovova's proses and new perspective of interpretation of her texts.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):172-185 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.044
The paper Prague - Shibuya - Beijing. Novels by Anna Cima and Radka Denemarková (not only) about the Far East deals with the novels by Radka Denemarková and Anna Cima, which are related by their setting into the Far East countries, namely Japan and China. The analyzes and comparison of both of the novels reveals substantive differences between the plots, characters, aims and strategies of the authors, as well as between the language means applied. In general, despite great ambitions of the Radka Denemarková's extensive novel the Anna Cima's prosaic debute is found as more convincing.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):186-194 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.045
The paper focuses on three novels by Marek Toman (*1967) published during three years: Chvála oportunismu (2016), Neptunova jeskyně (2018) and Oko žraloka (2018). Although Toman's novels use different narrative methods, they have got common features. They process Czech modern history by artificial means and concentrate on the most important turning points of Czech history in the 20th century. The first named fiction is very inventive for its narrator that is building of Czernin Palace, seat of the Czech Ministery of Foreign Affairs. But next works put a more conventional view of the Czech history and have not got such elaborated composition.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):196-206 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.046
The article focuses on ways of depicting history and historical events in Czech prose dedicated to children. Specifically, these are two books that return thematically to the period of the First Republic. We are interested in how the authors work with the chosen topic and narrative strategies, not only at the level of the text, but also the image.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):208-213 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.047
The paper presents Czech awards focused on books for children and young people: Magnesia Litera, The Most Beautiful Book of the Year, Suk - we all read and more. It also collects and comments on individual titles. The research is focused on the period 2017/2018.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):214-223 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.048
In his study, Ivo Harák deals with location of the fine artist Jan Jelínek's writing. Harák sees it in context of the West Czech region but he also considers Jelínek's reach beyond regions. Harák analysis both of Jelínek's published books of poems pointing out the roots and significant features of Jelínek's writing.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(3):224-235 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.049
This essay deals with journalistic reflections of the Czech literary award Magnesia Litera as manifestations of discourse of Czech literary criticism. It shows how this award is referred in five articles published in 2019 (articles by Petr Štengl, Eva Klíčová, Roman Polách, Miroslav Balaštík and Ondřej Horák). The essay notes their thematic directions, analyzes and compares their main means of expression and used argumentation strategies.
