Reálná a imaginární Praha v romanetu Svatý Xaverius Jakuba Arbesa

• Authors: Richard Změlík

Title variants

PL

Real and imaginary Prague in Arbes’s novelSaint Xaverius

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The present study discusses the issue of a relationship between the fictional world of a prose narrative and the real topography of Prague. The main aim of the paper is to point out the difficulties springing from making uncritical connections between fictional entities and real objects or places, which happens not just during casual reading, whose equivalent in literary theory is Umberto Eco’s term “empirical author,” but also in certain strands of literary criticism, influenced mainly by positivism and psychologism. In the specific analysis of Jakub Arbes’s romanetto Saint Xaverius, the present author’s ambition is not to manifest programmatically the autonomy of fiction, but rather to undertake a critical reading that should lead to an understanding of this dichotomy as an issue of the modality of fiction.

Keywords

EN

fictional words; fictional topography; fictional space; fictional narrative; representation of space and literary topography; Czech literature of the 19th century fikcyjne słowa; fikcyjna topografia; fikcyjne miejsca; fikcja w narracji; reprezentacja przestrzeni i topografii literackiej; literatura czeska XIX wieku

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Slavica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 161
• Pages: 305 - 312

Contributors

author

Richard Změlík

• Univerzita Palackého (Ołomuniec, Republika Czeska)