Roland Barthes and Václav Havel as conspirators of literature – on the principle of literary persuasiveness Cover Image

Roland Barthes a Václav Havel jako spiklenci literatury – k principu literární přesvědčivosti
Roland Barthes and Václav Havel as conspirators of literature – on the principle of literary persuasiveness

Author(s): Jakub Češka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Aesthetics, Theory of Literature
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Roland Barthes; Václav Havel; Mytologies; Narrative; Legitimization;

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the reflection of quasi-argumentative strategies based on narrative. Nevertheless, the narrative perspective is not reflected by the authors, it is even published as a rational argumentation core. In contrast to secret narratives, I build a purposefully composed literary work that reveals the neglected aspects of human existence (using imagination). At the same time, I express the hypothesis in which the persuasiveness of literature lies: the deprivation of the author’s subject, which happens by placing the reader in the imaginary perspective of narration. In the extrapolation I see Roland Barthes and Václav Havel as conspirators of literature (they are hiding literary investment in their essayist contemplation) against Kundera’s straightforward and admitted art of the novel.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 69-79
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Czech