Bohemica Olomucensia 2023, 15(1):7-9 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2023.001
Bohemica Olomucensia 2023, 15(1):12-21 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2023.002
In a certain opposition to the commonly accepted view of the good soldier Schweik, the perspective proposed in the study is based on a somewhat heretical assumption (concerning the Švejk-figure), which does not see Schweik as the center of the whole novel as such, but attributes to him a servant function and understands him as the principle of the narrative and semantic construction of this specific text. Therefore, three basic principles, namely physical, verbal, and semantical) of the narrative-semantical build of the text are proposed to help us uncover the novel's general strategies and dominants.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2023, 15(1):22-35 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2023.003
This paper is addressed Franco Moretti's provocative application of the Darwinian evolutionary model based on the divergence of biological species and their survival through natural selection to literary history. This approach was juxtaposed against the ideas of two leading Russian Formalists, Iurii Tynianov and Roman Jakobson, whose explanation of linguistic/literary change was programmatically anti-Darwinian, making conversion (conceived, though, in a particular way) the cornerstone of their respective historiographies. In doing so, they were reacting to the project of historical poetics advanced by the 19th-century Russian Positivist philologist...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2023, 15(1):36-82 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2023.004
The presented work deals with the issue of the absurd in the work of Albert Camus. The study deals with the relationship between existential philosophy and literature. The aim is to interpret the novel The Stranger in relation to the basic concepts of Albert Camus. In particular, it is absurd, revolt and resentment. The subject of interest is also the philosophical interpretation of these concepts, which have a fundamental impact on the form of existential literature.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2023, 15(1):84-102 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2023.005
The study analyses the reception of Petra Hůlová's literary work in Poland with a focus on her publishers' activities. The writer's books have been published in two different publishing houses - W.A.B., one of the biggest fiction publishers in Poland, and Afera, small publishing house founded by bohemist and translator Julia Różewicz. The author of the paper - basing on the publishers' strategies and the reviews of critics and readers - describes the influence of this transition on the perception of Petra Hůlová's works in Poland and on the position of both writer and publisher in Polish literary field.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2023, 15(1):104-114 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2023.006
The main topic of the study is a critical consideration of the analytical and interpretative methods used by the literary historian and critic Jiří Zizler in his monograph on the poet Zdeněk Rotrekl - The Aristocrat of the Catacombs. Towards the Life and Work of Zdeněk Rotrekl (2021). The study demonstrates that Zizler's book is the result of the combination of several approaches: the literary-critical, historical, and comparative, as well as the structural, phenomenological, and hermeneutical. One must also add the method of close reading, which Zizler uses to create his interpretive models.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2023, 15(1):116-126 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2023.007
Among the epigrams of Karel Havlíček Borovský is the Učený epigram z ruštiny (Learned Epigram from Russian), a translation of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's Epigram od Dondukov-Korsakov (Эпиграмма на Дондукова-Корсакова), which in 1835 mocked Mikhail Alexandrovich Prince Korsakov, who was appointed that same year second vice-president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg and chairman of its administrative committee. The conflict between A. S. Pushkin and...
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Kundera's last novel has two levels of action - French and Soviet. In the end they permeate each other. This permeation is part of the general principle of paradox. Beside the latter, Kundera in his novel applies the heptadic principle (based on number seven). The action in the novel is presented by a fictional narrator, who can be identified with the author. From the characters in the novel, also remarkable is ingot, an unknown character. The finale of the prose also contains the paradoxical principle and its framing is local. Key words: two action levels, paradoxical principle, heptadic principle, fictional narrator, ingot, paradoxical finale, local...
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