Ciało jako przedmiot zemsty w twórczości Jana Křesadly

• Authors: Joanna Czaplińska

Title variants

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BODY AS A SUBJECT OF REVENGE IN JAN KŘESADLO LITERARY OUTPUT

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Writings of Jan Křesadlo, a Czech writer in exile after 1968, can be read as a postmodern literature as well as texts with influence of the Enlightenment writers, e.g. Voltaire, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift. Křesadlo used to use literature as a means of his private revenge. In the novel Rusticalia he deconstructs a realistic novel by using detailed descriptions of copulation which fills in a real picture of life. Another text, Skrytý život Cypriána Belvy is a polemic with critics that describe author’s writings as pornography. The heaviest attacks are aimed at Milan Kundera who is a hero of his texts Kravex5 aneb potíže stavu beztíže and Obětina. Křesadlo’s writing can be read as a polemic with his enemies and as a moralistic allegory as well.

Keywords

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JAN KŘESADLO; CONTEMPORARY CZECH LITERATURE; CZECH LITERATURE IN EXILE; CZECH POSTMODERN LITERATURE

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Slavica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 153
• Pages: 779-788

Contributors

author

Joanna Czaplińska