„Práce, o kterou se pokoušíte,se vám ani v nejmenším nedaří“ Reflexe psaní v povídkách Karla Miloty

• Authors: Šebek Josef

Title variants

EN

“THE WORK YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH IS CLEARLY NOT COMING ALONG”: THE REFLECTION OF WRITING IN KAREL MILOTA’S SHORT STORIES

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with three short stories from Karel Milota’s collection The Night of Mirrors (Noc zrcadel; 1981, rev. ed. 2005): the eponymous text, “Carol” (“Koleda”) and “Pastoral” (“Pastorála”). These second-person narratives foreground the character of the writer (or, in the case of the “Pastoral”, the composer) and the process of creation — or rather its failure. The argument presented in this article proceeds in three steps. First, it focuses on the unnatural narration and paradoxical narrative techniques, namely mise en abyme and ontological metalepsis. Next, it analyzes the representation of architectural space and “musicalisation” of fiction as basis for building literary atmospheres. Finally, it concentrates on the (self-) presentation of the writer and indistinct quality of literary and theoretical discourse in the stories. These three mutually related aspects persistently engage the reader’s cognitive and emotional faculties, and vividly stage the identity of the author and creative process.

Keywords

CS

Karel Milota; psaní; čtenář; nepřirozená naratologie; mise en abyme; metalepse; literární atmosféry; autorská sebeprezentace

EN

Karel Milota; writing; reader; unnatural narratology; mise en abyme; metalepsis; literary atmospheres; authorial self-presentation

• 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: 2021
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-58

Contributors

author

Šebek Josef

• Univerzita Karlova

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366729.2021.1.3