Ostrov Cohnova rozhodnutí aneb krajina jmen v románu Bernarda Malamuda Boží milost

• Authors: Žaneta Dvořáková

Title variants

EN

The island of Cohn's decision or area of personal names in the novel God's grace by Bernard Malamud

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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Humankind was destroyed during a nuclear war. This is the beginning of the last novel of B. Malamud, God’s Grace. The only man who survived was Calvin Cohn. On a boat he found a speaking chimpanzee and then a group of chimpanzees and baboons on an island. Cohn as a new biblical Adam gave names to the monkeys. There are two different sorts of these names – biblical ones playing a role of nomen omen and describing characters on one hand and names of Cohn’s family members and friends on the other hand – names which were part of Cohn’s past life, his memory.

Keywords

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onomastika

EN

literary onomastics

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-54
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Žaneta Dvořáková

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic