Romantická ironie jako protihráčka entuziasmu u Borgese a Cortázara

• Authors: Kazmar Vít

Title variants

EN

ROMANTIC IRONY AS A COUNTERPART TO ENTHUSIASM IN BORGES AND CORTÁZAR

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study offers an interpretation of Borges and Cortázar in the light of romantic irony, in particular Friedriech Schlegel’s concept from the Athenaeum fragment 37 where irony is defined as an art of controlled enthusiasm. This is something that can be found in Borges, at the level of language, in the figure of litotes, in his penchant for brevity and a relative disdain for novels. In Cortázar, the taming of enthusiasm manifests itself more openly, as a contrast of two alternating modes of speech. Thus, Borges and Cortázar embody two answers to the question of enthusiasm.

Keywords

EN

Romantic irony; Friedrich Schlegel; Jorge Luis Borges; Julio Cortázar; litotes

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 65
• Pages: 59-69

Contributors

author

Kazmar Vít