Čtyřicet psaní z kamakurského hotelu: dopisy neznámého Joe Hlouchy (1923)

• Authors: Pavel Kořínek

Title variants

EN

Forty missives from a Kamakura hotel: Joe Hloucha’s Letters from an unknown (1923)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This case study describes Hloucha’s novelistic experiment to find a new form for the popular japonérie novel, written in the late 1910s and early 1920s using authentic travel notes from his first trip to Japan in 1906 and other older texts. This genre experiment attempting to combine a popular travelogue exposition with the traditional devices and procedures of epistolary sentimental prose involving relationships was not well received by critics and readers, but it presents an interesting example of the author’s efforts to innovate the genre and reassert his own position in the rapidly growing ranks of Czech „Japan specialists“ at that time.

Keywords

CS

Joe Hloucha; Japonsko; žaponerie; populární cestopis; populární literatura

EN

Joe Hloucha; Japan; japonérie; popular travelogue; popular literature

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 486-497
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pavel Kořínek

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic