Příliš starý na pohádky?: sirotci roku 1968 Jáchyma Topola

• Authors: Astrid Greve Kristensen

Title variants

EN

Too old for fairy tales? Jáchym Topol’s 1968 orphans

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study aims to show to what extent the condition of orphanhood affects the narrative and characters in Jáchym Topol’s early 21st century novels, Noční práce (Night Work [2001]) and Kloktat dehet (Gargling with Tar [2005]). Using insights from the field of childhood studies and from research on fairy tales and myths, the author seeks to demonstrate how orphanhood plays a significant role in both novels. He achieves narrative disruption by letting the orphan narrators permanently inhabit a “misty world of affects” where their interpretive skills are not fully developed and where they themselves are constantly trying to distinguish between reality and unreality.

Keywords

CS

Jáchym Topol; sirotci; osiřelost; afektivní obrat; childhood studies; mýtus; pohádka

EN

Jáchym Topol; orphans; orphanhood; affective turnaround; childhood studies; myth; fairy tale

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 73
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 311-337
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Astrid Greve Kristensen

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