Objev v populární literatuře pro ženy ve třicátých letech 20. století
Conception of invention in popular literature

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the conception of invention in popular literature for women, in the 30s of the 20th century. It concentrates on the problems of inventing a new author and examines the conditions and factors of the process. It argues that new authors, not new forms, play an important role in popular magazines and the basic impulses for inventions are, as follows: sensation, sentimentality, development of literature for women and pragmatic reasons for widening circle of readers. At the same time, the sense of invention is not originality, but the original working up of the tradition and the most popular older authors and themes. What is important, there are implicit tendencies going back to the National Revival with its striving for the Czech woman-writer, and implied mystifi cation tendency. This is illustrated on the magazine for women “Pražanka” (“The Woman of Prague”; 1929–1943) and its invention of a woman-writer Zdeňka Navarová and her novel “Poručík Ota a kapitán Jiří” (“The Colonel Ota and Captain Jiří”) published in 1931. The mystifi cation is shown at the case of a new author Julie Landová who was in fact the woman-writer Růžena Morávková.

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