KE ZDROJŮM EPIKY V LITERATUŘE SLEZSKA A SEVERNÍ MORAVY (NÁČRT TVŮRČÍCH VÝCHODISEK REGIONÁLNÍ PRÓZY)
ON THE SOURCES OF EPIC PROSE IN THE LITERATURE OF SILESIA AND NORTHERN MORAVIA

Summary/Abstract: The topics of the novels of the literature of Silesia and Northern Moravia were from the very beginnings inspired by the historical changes of the region. It was the change of the countryside caused by the invasion of industrial large-scale production accompanied with radical changes in the lives of its inhabitants that provided subjects attracting writers´ interest. It was reflected e.g. in the work of František Sokol Tůma and his followers as early as at the turn of the 20th century. Their work was also influenced by naturalism, by Émile Zola’s novels in particular. The epic prose of the Ostrava region reached its peak in V. Martínek´s trilogy Černá země and in A.M.Tilschová’s novel Haldy, in the works depicting the world of social poverty and conflicts in a modern industrial region. Martínek’s novels render the development of the Ostrava region in the course of almost one hundred years. Later on in the 20th century epic genres seem to be on the decline and at the same time the prose of the Ostrava region falls behind the development in the national literature. After World War II the literature of our region is more and more shaped by controversial ideological tendencies and finds itself to a large extent caught up in the tide of post war historical events.

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