Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):7-9 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.028
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):12-31 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.005
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....
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):32-43 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.012
The study "A journey into the dark depths of one's own mind, or I am their God by Josef Pánek" brings an analysis of Josef Pánek's latest prose entitled I am their God and it also engages in the evaluation of the critical reception of this book. It interprets the basic semantic lines of the work and shows Pánek's typical narrative strategies. However, it is devoted above all to the fictional consciousness of the main character, which represents the central space and the focus of the meaning of the entire text. In the final part, the study attempts to critically assess Pánek's novel and to explain why this prose did not fulfill the expectations that...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):44-55 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.010
This article deals with two crime fiction books by František Šmehlík: the novel Slyšet jeleny zpívat (To Hear the Deer Sing, 2021) and the novel Šelma (The Beast, 2022). The critical reviewing especially focuses on the problem of transposition and modification of the "nordic noir" narrative model (typical settings, plots, characters) to the Czech fiction.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):56-70 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.016
The study analyses F. Klega's collection Andrstán in comparative relations not only to the Czech literary underground, but also asks to what extent the conceptual vocabulary that accompanies the collection, especially the notions of the Czech underground and "embarrassing poetry", is thought about in the texts that in some way reciprocate it. It also asks to what extent the freedom in the use of these terms is linked to the situation of literary criticism within the academically "measured" literary science.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):72-88 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.011
This study aims to comprehensively present the literary work of the Czech author Klára Goldstein. By reviewing her four most recent books, the study tries to analytically and interpretatively specify the most characteristic features of the author's poetry and also her creative processes.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):90-115 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.006
The author of the study deals not only with media cases connected with the activities of Petr Kukal, but above all with his literary and poetic work from 2014 to the last collection published so far. Using secondary literature, it examines Kukal's creative profile through the analysis and interpretation of Kukal's texts in order to clarify the poet's relationship to the artistic tradition, the changes in his work and also his position within contemporary Czech poetry.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):116-123 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.001
The article informs about the complex of Slovak literary awards Panta Rhei Awards and especially about Pavol Rankov's prose The Clinic, which won the PRA Literary Academy Award in 2023. After a brief introduction of the author and a recapitulation of his work to date, an interpretative analysis follows, emphasizing that this is a model prose, precise in partial details, but basically resigned to soul-searching verisimilitude, convincing motivation of the characters' actions or authenticity in depicting the setting. The story of an individual trying in vain to get into the care of a renowned expert is a conscious variation on the works of world-famous...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):124-133 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.014
In this paper, we analyse a collection of short stories entitled Dom pre jeleňa (2002) by the author Dominika Moravčíková, who has already drawn attention to herself with her literary debut, a collection of poems, Deti Hamelnu (2020). In both collections, we can observe similar authorial practices, thematic focus, but also specifics analogous to a distinct movement in contemporary Slovak literature.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):134-140 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.002
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):142-151 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.013
In 2012, under the auspices of the Writers' Association, the Prize for Humorous Literature was established, named after the popular representative of this genre, Miloslav Švandrlík (1932-2009). Initially, it was awarded annually, but its rules and especially the composition of the individual juries have changed. Eventually, there was even a "price pause", with the year relating to books published in 2021 being initially omitted and then merged with the following year. The consequences of this "price pause" are summarised in a framework with reference to the books by the pseudonymous Sigi Bigstain, who created a humorous trilogy about the fate of the...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):154-164 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.009
The study focuses on the aesthetic dimensions of the work of Lubomír Doležel. This work, although essentially bound to the field of literary theory, displays various links to aesthetic categories and connects them to linguistic, semiotic, literary and narrative theoretical and other of the author's findings. The study reveals these connections.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):166-191 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.015
Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s was controlled by the Communist Party, which strictly determined cultural policy. The book market was centrally planned and based on the reduction or negation of market mechanisms. In this study, I show the ways in which the Party in power tried to determine the optimal way of calculating authors' royalties in order to achieve a "fair" payment system and to limit "unearned" profit. Similarly, I examine what factors were taken into account in setting a uniform selling price for the book, which was not to be based on actual financial costs or the level of reader demand, but was to take into account the social value...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):194-245 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.008
This study provides the reader with the correspondence of Jan Čep to Josef Tichý, the editor of the Olomouc publishing house Velehrad and Čep's friend. The correspondence contains thirty-one letters and eight postcards sent by Jan Čep to Josef Tichý from 1939 to the end of 1947. The letters (together with Josef Tichý's memoirs of one of his visits to Myslechovice) are kept in the Memorial of Literature in Moravia in Rajhrad.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):248-254 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.004
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):255-265 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.007
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):266-267 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.003
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):268-269 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.017
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):270-271 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.018
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):272-273 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.020
