Hra s ich-formou v díle Bohumila Hrabala

• Authors: Doležel, Lubomír
• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper is based on the assumption that the first-person narrative (Ich-form) in modern fiction is not an imitation of oral story-telling, but a special literary mode of narration. As such, it has produced a broad range of variants. The paper follows these variants in the prose fiction of Bohumil Hrabal, who practised Ich-form narrative throughout his creative life. The composition of the paper does not follow a chronological, but rather a logical order of variants, ranging from the “oral stream” of Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age through “narrator substitution” in the autobiographical trilogy to the “text after death” of Closely Watched Trains (and a version of Too Loud a Solitude). The paper offers a theoretical explanation of the rise of these variants in claiming that in modern literature the Ich-form underwent a process of conventionalization. In this process it took over some basic features of its competitor, the “objective” Er-form. A similar process can be observed in the evolution of the Er-form, but this time the narration moves from the “objective” base to the “subjective” variants. In modern prose fiction, both Er-form and Ich-form offer a rich variety of narrative modes, unavailable in the prose of the preceding periods. Bohumil Hrabal’s “playing” with the Ich-form contributed substantially to this major innovation.

Keywords

CS

Česká literatura; česká literatura; narativní způsoby; ich-forma; er-forma; posmrtný text

EN

Czech literature; narrative modes; Ich-form; Er-form; text after death

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 238-250
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Doležel, Lubomír

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