Hravá autentičnost fiktivní historie v románu Jeho krvavé dílo Graeme Macrae Burneta

• Authors: Chalupský Petr

Title variants

EN

PLAYFUL AUTHENTICITY OF FICTITIOUS HISTORY IN GRAEME MACRAE BURNET’S HIS BLOODY PROJECT

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project (2015) is formally a historical novel with elements of detective fiction and the thriller. The book playfully presents itself as a dossier consisting of ostensibly authentic documents related to the case of a triple murder committed by a young destitute peasant named Roderick Macrae in a small and remote crofting hamlet in the Highlands in 1869. The individual texts, written in different styles and genres, include medical reports, expert opinions, witnesses’ testimonies, transcripts of the court proceedings and, most importantly, a memoir written by the culprit in his prison cell while he was waiting for the trial’s sentence. This article discusses Burnet’s novel and its skilful composition within the context of British literary tradition, but also shows how it exemplifies the determining tendencies in contemporary historical fiction.

Keywords

CS

Graeme Macrae Burnet; Jeho krvavé dílo; historická próza; autenticita; narativní perspektiva

EN

Graeme Macrae Burnet; His Bloody Project; historical fiction; authenticity; narrative perspective

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: 2020
• Issue: 62
• Pages: 35-50

Contributors

author

Chalupský Petr

• Univerzita Karlova

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366729.2020.2.3