Zbloudilí čtenáři a nenasytné čtenářky. literární sebereflexe obsesivního čtení
Stray readers and voracious readers. Literary self-reflection of obsessive reading

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on scenes of obsessive reading and the characters of waywardmale and female readers which nineteenth-century authors presented to deal withcontemporary critiques of the reading imagination. The study shows that thesecharacters always express something more than a mere critique of reading: obsessivereaders become part of a literary game regarding the status of fiction and increasethe reader’s pleasure in reading. This study examines in detail the three dominantpoetics of reading that authors developed in texts during the long nineteenth century:the metaleptic experiments of the Romantics, the emancipatory reading of works byrealist female authors, and the hermetic reading required by fin de siècle prose. Indoing so, the work describes how gender schemas associated with the principle ofdesire (for an erotic object and at the same time for a coherent meaning to the

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