Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):5-7
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):10-21 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.038
The study analyses the 22nd chapter of the novel Santa Lucia written by Vilém Mrštík, which contains almost exclusively a description of Prague observed from the window by the main character Jordán. This description is very subjective and emotional. The analysis focuses on the relationship between an observing subject and an observed object. In the text three different forms of Prague are distinguished: Prague-place, Prague-object and Prague-person. The signs of multisensoriality, expressivity, impressionism and romantism are detected.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):22-35 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.039
The paper presents a comparative reading of 1930s novels by Egon Hostovský Dům bez pána and Případ profesora Körnera. The attention is focused on the poetics associated with the themes of memory and recollection, especially on the role protagonists' memory plays in the constitution of identity of the narrating subject and other characters. It is shown that memory of the protagonists is rather unreliable and unstable, and so is their identity, because it seems to stem precisely from memory itself. It is suggested that this understanding could bring some useful insights for further interpretation of Hostovský's later texts written in exile, where memory...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):36-44 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.040
The aim of this paper is to recognize and explain grotesque elements in Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera, where I try to elucidate what constitutes the grotesque and all the ways it manifests in Kundera's book. In addition, I suggest that in the given collection of short-stories two main types of grotesque can be found and thoroughly elaborate them.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):46-54 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.041
The paper deals with the possibility of transferring the term still life from visual arts to lyrical poetry. The focus is on Richard Weiner's ecphrastic poem Jean Baptiste Chardin, its analysis and interpretation.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):56-62 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.042
The article explores the role of the novel Invalidní sourozenci by Egon Bondy in the semiotic space of the Czech underground during its formative period in the mid 1970s. It is viewed through Jurij Lotman's comparison between semiosphere and a museum exhibition.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):64-72 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.043
If one accepts the permeability of the boundaries between reality and fiction, then it is necessary to admit such a changeability also in case of the participants in the process of literary output and its reception. This paper deals with the dynamics between these participants and text itself in works of Michal Ajvaz.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):74-94 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.044
This study examines the significant amount of popular Czech prose published after 1989 that addressed growing up during the late communist era of 'normalization' (1970s and 80s). The prose of P. Šabach, M. Viewegh, I. Dousková, H. Pawlowská, J. Formánek and B. Vaněk Úvalský have much in common: adolescent or distant narrators and acts of small and funny resistance against the regime, but also a lack of interest in politics, memories of pop-culture, first love and partying. Much of this is related to the well-known phenomenon of "ostalgia" or "post-socialist nostalgia", meaning nostalgic reminiscences of the communist era. The study also connects all...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):98-103 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.045
This article is based on the analysis in the thesis Lilli Recht and Mascha Kaléko, Two Poetesses of The New Objectivity (2021) and introduces The New Objectivity as an art direction, under which we can classify Lilli Recht nowadays almost forgotten author born in Olomouc. It describes The German Moravian Literature too as an important context of the life and work of Lilli Recht. The thesis has shown that the lyrical work of Lilli Recht is on the comparable level with the well-known poems of The New Objectivity und therefor we can consider the author to be the "treasure" of Olomouc New Objectivity. Because The New Objectivity does not appear very often...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):104-115 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.046
The aim of this article is to introduce concepts of emptiness and silence in collection of poetry The black heralds (Los heraldos negros) by peruvian author César Vallejo. The first part of the work captures life events that influenced author's personality and his poetic style. Both of them are well reflected in verses from the first collection. The following section deals with specific analysis of poems and its main focus is to detect the concept of emptiness and silence in them.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):116-133 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.047
The study confronts the concept of the superfluous man, as it appeared in 19th century Russian literature, with the features used in French existentialism. Specifically, we will deal with the analysis of Antoine Roquentin, protagonist of Jean-Paul Sarter's Nausea (1938).
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):134-158 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.048
The study focuses on the interpretation of the play J.-P. Sartre The Devil and God. The primary goal is to describe the contrast between existentialism and Christianity, as it is a game in which these currents of thought collide with each other. The structure of the work consists of four basic points. First, Sartre and atheism. Second, the concept of existence and its ontological concept. Third, the theoretical concept of literature and the classification of plays. Fourth interpretation of the chosen theater play and its theological reflection.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):160-175 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.049
This study examines Roland Barthes' notion critique of realism as it is presented especially in his book S/Z and his essay "The Reality Effect". Barthes criticizes the claim to mimetic representation of "reality" present in realist fiction. As has been pointed out by numerous later theorists, this is a rather reductive view of realism's link to world. The second issue of realism criticized by Barthes is its ideological closedness, juxtaposed in S/Z to his ideal of the writable text but also to Barthes' re-reading of Balzac's novella Sarrasine as fully open and plural. The result of his interpretation, however, does not live up to these claims. Following...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):176-189 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.050
The initial proposal of this work is the classification of humanoid robots as members of a literary ethnic group. Utilising methodological approach of imagology, orientalism and sociology. This thesis deals with mechanism of oppression and social exclusion of robot characters in selected sci-fi work. Exploration of several examples proves that robots are discriminated as ethnic minorities as soon as they demand social equality.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(3):190-206 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.051
This paper introduces the theory of the circle of subgenres of fantasy literature. This theory combines the standard (fan) inner division of fantasy into high, heroic, urban etc. and selected scientific theories dealing with fantasy literature. The need to create a circle of subgenres is based on the extent of the fantasy genre and its growing popularity, as well as inconsistencies in the definition of subgenres, especially by fans' definitions. The circle of subgenres can be applied to the so-called core texts, which can be found using Attebery's theory of fuzzy sets, Wittgenstein's theory of of family resemblance and particular intertextual characteristics....
