Implikovaný autor a čtenář(i) jako spiklenci: Jak Hledá se hvězda cílí na různé typy čtenářů
Implied author and reader(s) in collusion: The Search for a Star targeting both novice and expert readers

Summary/Abstract: The study is devoted to interpreting Lenka Brodecka’s “adventurous fairy tale crime story” TheSearch for a Star (Hledá se hvězda, 2015). Combining crime fiction and other genres, the book invites a different kind of reading than classical detective stories. The aim of this study is twofold. Firstly, it highlights selected textual strategies conducted by the narrator, which open the book to two different types of readers – novice and expert. Secondly, it demonstrates how the genre syncretism of the prose is reflected in various narrative strategies as well as in the key motif of the Star. As will be argued, the story should be read neither as a fairy tale, in which good triumphs over evil, nor as a detective story, revealing the truth about an ingeniously committed crime and the violator of the order of the fictional world. The issue of what is good (and whether parents necessarily do what is best for children) is problematized here and handed over for assessment to the reader, who also has the opportunity to make an alliance with the narrator and thus become “smarter” than the detectives. The conceptual framework for the interpretation consists of the concepts of focalization and implied addressees.

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