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

• Authors: Robert Kulmiński

Title variants

EN

Escape into darkness - corporeality and dying in Anna Bolavá’s novel Do tmy (Into Darkness)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

CS

smrt; umírání; tělo; nemoc

EN

death; dying; body; illness

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 428-443
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Robert Kulmiński

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

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Anna Šašková Plasová

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