„Slovo po slovu touží…“: Řeč, psaní a paměť v prózách Bohumily Grögerové a Daniely Hodrové

Author(s): Alice Jedličková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 3/2024

The focus of this paper is the mutual representation of the process of artistic writing in the memoirs of Bohumila Grögerová ‘Můj labyrint’ [My Labyrinth] and in the novel ‘Točité věty’ [Winding Sentences] by Daniela Hodrová, which came into existence concurrently with the two authors in close contact. Other pieces by these authors, though of different genres, may be read as an artistic dialogue as well: a dialogue with mythologies, historical figures and cultural traditions, the values and knowledge that these authors share and represent, sometimes in a similar way and sometimes in a different one, while employing narrative strategies typical both of modernist and postmodernist poetics, balancing between dream and reality, fictionality, fictionalization and authenticity. A selection of topics (language, speech, writing; individual and collective; textual subjects; myth and novel; memory and oblivion) are analyzed, and a comparison of modes of representation and their functions in the texts as related to the world of ideas of both authors is undertaken.

Ignác Cornova a Václav Stach Kapitola z počátků novočeského básnictví

Author(s): Dalibor Dobiáš / Language(s): Czech Issue: 01/2022

Was Ignác Cornova’s contribution to Czech-language literature only that of a historian? In the 1770s and 1780s he also happened to be the most acclaimed poet in Bohemia. Of the many reactions to Cornova’s work from German and Czech writers, this study focuses on Nábožné písně pro katolického měšťana a sedláka k veřejným a domácím službám božím (Religious Songs for the Catholic Townsman and Countryman for Use in Public and Domestic Divine Service, 1791) by Václav Stach, with a verse dedication to Cornova. It emphasises that under the Habsburg monarchy the genre of religious songs and hymns was also a platform for forming a new readership and literary public, providing a vehicle for writers such as Michael Denis, Ignaz Cornova, Johann Peter Hofmann and Václav Stach himself for creative experimentation and a mutually beneficial communication of their work to the public. In this context, our study examines the conceptual and aesthetic links between Stach and the poetic models of Ignác Cornova.

Útěk do tmy — o tělesnosti a umírání v románu Anny Bolavé Do tmy

Author(s): Robert Kulmiński / Language(s): Czech Issue: 4/2024

Anna Bolavá’s prose debut Into Darkness presents an extraordinary picture of neurosis and an extraordinary record of the psychosomatic disintegration of man in the contemporary world. The narration is conducted in the first person, which brings with it a number of interpretative implications. In my reflections I have endeavoured to adhere to the subject areas proposed by the author: the disintegration of Anna’s world, escape from reality, corporeality, dying and death. In other words, I view the work from the perspective of the dominant themes in the novel. With this in mind, the interpretive framework is defined by the philosophical conceptions of dying and death — particularly those involving Epicureanism, which reject the real existence of death (Epicurus), thanatological considerations of the impossibility of thinking of death (Zygmunt Bauman), maladic discourse in the sense of analysing the phenomenon of illness and dying in language, as well as the theory of “staring” described in detail by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.

Václav Petrbok, Stýkání, nebo potýkání? Z dějin česko německo rakouských literárních vztahů od Bílé hory do napoleonských válek

Author(s): Jakub Ivánek / Language(s): Czech Issue: 01/2015

Review of: Václav Petrbok, Stýkání, nebo potýkání? Z dějin česko německo rakouských literárních vztahů od Bílé hory do napoleonských válek, Praha: Triáda 2012, 264 p.

Tschechisch-Unterricht in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts: Jan Urbans Lehrbücher und ihre deutschen Vorlagen

Author(s): Karsten Rinas / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2024

This article examines three Czech textbooks published by the teacher Jan Urban in the first half of the 19th century. These works are translations of German textbooks, but these templates are only partially known. The article identifies the German originals and contrasts them with Urban’s Czech translations in order to shed light on Urban’s adaptation strategy. It also reflects on the historical context of these German and Czech textbooks. The study thus contributes to research into German-Czech linguistic-cultural transfer during the period of Czech National Revival.

Ein Bild des Leidens der sudetendeutschen Brüder und Schwestern oder eine Provokation? Zur Rezeption Friedrich Jaksch-Bodenreuths Roman Alle Wasser Böhmens fließen nach Deutschland

Author(s): Marie Brunová / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2024

This article examines three Czech textbooks published by the teacher Jan Urban in the first half of the 19th century. These works are translations of German textbooks, but these templates are only partially known. The article identifies the German originals and contrasts them with Urban’s Czech translations in order to shed light on Urban’s adaptation strategy. It also reflects on the historical context of these German and Czech textbooks. The study thus contributes to research into German-Czech linguistic-cultural transfer during the period of Czech National Revival.

Preobražaji Kafkinog Preobražaja

Author(s): Dimitrije Popović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 29/2024

Opće je mišljenje da je Franz Kafka svojim romanom Proces inaugurirao represivne režime totalitarnih ideologija fašizma i komunizma kojima će biti obilježeno 20. stoljeće. Stoga se čini gotovo nevjerojatnim da je pisac ovaj roman bio zamislio kao humoristično djelo. Čitajući fragmente teksta u krugu bliskih prijatelja najviše je smijeha izazivala činjenica da je Jozef K. bez konkretnog povoda jednog jutra bio uhapšen. Iako nikad nije saznao što piše u optužnici osuđen je na smrtnu kaznu i zaklan »kao pas« u jednom kamenolomu.

České exofonie? Pokus o vymezení výzkumného pole

Author(s): Joanna Derdowska / Language(s): Czech Issue: 5/2024

This article explores the terminology of literary multilingualism employed by Czechliterary scholars and compares how the discourse produced with this terminologycorresponds with current developments in translingual studies in the broaderinternational context. The first part is a brief probe into the current developmentof multilingualism research abroad conducted in English, which provides anopportunity to broaden the theoretical base that in the Czech context interacts morewith the German scholarly community. The concept of post-monolingualism is takeninto account and the term exophony is also introduced, followed by reflections onwhether and to what extent it might be useful for Czech literary studies, if at all.

Velkolepý návrat Emila Saudka

Author(s): Marie Brunová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 5/2024

Review of: Merhautová, Lucie, ed. a Topor, Michal, ed. Nalezen v překladu: Emil Saudek (1876-1941). First edition. Praha: Institut pro studium literatury, 2022. 826 pages. ISBN 978-80-7657-022-1.

ИЗГУБЕНОТО СЪКРОВИЩЕ. ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ НА МАЙКАТА В БАЛАДАТА НА К.Я. ЕРБЕН „СЪКРОВИЩЕ”

Author(s): Tanya Yankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2024

In their poetics the romantics distanced themselves from the rationalistic ideas of the Enlightenment; they initiated an interest in the emotional subjective state of the personality. In the center of their ideological search, they placed the myth as a peculiar set of images, motives, subject-matters as a way of knowing the infinite and the eternal. In the myth, possibilities are revealed of a supreme synthesis of past and future, specific harmonizing of the personality as a result of the achieved entirety of the being.

ВЕЛИЧКО ТОДОРОВ И ИМАГИНИСТИКАТА (БЪЛГАРСКИ ЛИТЕРАТУРНИ ОБРАЗИ НА ЧЕХИТЕ)

Author(s): Dechka Chavdarova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2024

ЧЕШКИЯТ МАЙСТОР НА ЦИГУЛКИ, КОЙТО НАПРАВИ ОТ БЪЛГАРСКОТО МОМЧЕ С „ОСМИНКАТА“ ЕВРОПЕЙСКИ ПИСАТЕЛ (за някои аспекти на преподаването на „Балада за Георг Хених“ в 12. клас)

Author(s): Temenuga Teneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2024

The article talks about the difficulties in perceiving the novella Ballad of Georg Henich by Viktor Paskov, which is studied in the 12th grade at Bulgarian schools, and suggests more effective ways of teaching it. The contradiction of the author's life story, the creation of the book and the facts related to the main character - the Czech luthier Georg Henich – are interesting fragments of the context of the artistic text and would help increase the students’ interest in it. I also suggest experimenting with playbook-like reading to overcome the somewhat depressing impact of this very nice but very sad book.

Zprávy Literárního archivu

Author(s): Petr Kotyk,Lukáš Prokop,Zdeněk Freisleben / Language(s): Czech Issue: 55/2023

This paper contains s collection of short reports, obituaries, and more on the following topics: 1. New Acquisitions of the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature in 2022 2. The Fortunes of the Jaroslav Hašek Papers in the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature 3. A Forgotten Swiss Writer in Prague and His Friend Fred Bérence, Duchoslav Foršt, and Their Personal Papers in the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature 4. The BZ 12 Air-raid Shelter The Repository of the Library of the Museum of Czech Literature in Kladno 5. Magnetic Fields In Memory of Růžena Hamanová (1942–2023)

Obrazová příloha II

Author(s): No name Anonymous / Language(s): Czech Issue: 55/2023

Obrazová příloha IV

Author(s): No name Anonymous / Language(s): Czech Issue: 55/2023

Cesta do temných hlubin vlastní mysli aneb Jsem jejich bůh Josefa Pánka

Author(s): Aleš Merenus / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2024

The study "A journey into the dark depths of one’s own mind, or I am their God by Josef Pánek" brings an analysis of Josef Pánek’s latest prose entitled I am their God and it also engages in the evaluation of the critical reception of this book. It interprets the basic semantic lines of the work and shows Pánek’s typical narrative strategies. However, it is devoted above all to the fictional consciousness of the main character, which represents the central space and the focus of the meaning of the entire text. In the final part, the study attempts to critically assess Pánek’s novel and to explain why this prose did not fulfil the expectations that his previous book, Love in the Age of Global Climate Change, aroused in his readers.

Napjatá kůže ticha vibruje ozvěnou větru. K básním Kláry Goldstein

Author(s): Jakub Záhora / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2024

This study aims to comprehensively present the literary work of the Czech author Klára Goldstein. By reviewing her four most recent books, the study tries to analytically and interpretatively specify the most characteristic features of the author’s poetry and also her creative processes.

Protipopravčí četa Petra Rittera

Author(s): František Všetička / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2024

Petr Ritter, a lawyer by profession, is a notable figure in the literary generation of the 1980s, debuting with the novella "Advokát ex offo" in 1986. His novel "Protipopravčí četa," published in 1992, critically examines the legitimacy of the death penalty, reflecting on the societal and legal complexities surrounding it. The novel, structured around a one-week calendar cycle, begins and ends on a Friday, with each chapter named after a day of the week. The story revolves around Biesinger, who is on trial for murder, and the judges' introspective and intuitive scenes that explore the case's nuances. The narrative includes a mysterious bookmark motif linked to the presiding judge, Gartner, which symbolizes deeper moral and ethical questions. Ritter's work is characterized by its blend of intuitive scenes, mysterious motifs, and a strong contemplative component, making it a significant contribution to the discourse on capital punishment during a pivotal time in Czech history.

Hadí kámen Miloslava Topinky aneb Hledání prostoru „za“

Author(s): Radek Cimprich / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2024

O serii Czeska Bajka wrocławskiego wydawnictwa Afera

Author(s): Dorota Żygadło-Czopnik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2024

The publishing house Afera was established on the initiative of Julia Różewicz in Wrocław in 2010. The main goal of the publishing house is to introduce new Czech books to the Polish market. The Wrocław publishing house offers the Czech Fairy Tale series, within which ten positions of Czech literature for children and young people have been published. In the paper, we will consider how the Czech Fairy Tale series influences the shaping of the image of Czech literature for children and young people in Poland.