Ordinary people and their ordinary struggles with the world and with God in the context of Czech literature of the twentieth century Cover Image

Zwyczajni ludzie i ich zwyczajne zmagania ze światem i z Bogiem w kontekście czeskiej literatury XX wieku
Ordinary people and their ordinary struggles with the world and with God in the context of Czech literature of the twentieth century

Author(s): Damian Pałka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theology and Religion
Published by: Akademia im. Jakuba z Paradyża
Keywords: Czechs;faith;everyday life;experience of God;

Summary/Abstract: Content of article concerns for two problems. First, put in theircognitive perspective of human struggle with the world and with God,which is an issue for centuries considered by philosophers, theologiansand historians. Second, it tries to present these skirmishes in the longhistory of the Czech nation and its twentieth-century fate. It should also be noted that these struggles will be shown through Czech literature, and in fact the life and work of three Czech writers: Karel Capek, Ota Pavel and Bohumil Hrabal. Selection of these three Czechwriters is not random, and each of them is part of the diversity of Czech lands, which are land frontier, crossing roads in the center of Europe, which are focused in a lens as in Prague. The thing that connects my three chosen writers is a description of the man`s daily struggles with life. At the same talks about the daily toil of human life opens before us, „another world”; in which a lot of things turns out to be other than it actually is.

  • Issue Year: 6/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 145-156
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish