Krásná literatura a historická fakta: beletrie jako symbol a zdroj při psaní o ruských a východoevropských dějinách

• Authors: Martina Winklerová

Title variants

EN

Belles lettres and historical fact fiction as a symbol and source in writing on russian and central european history :

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article is concerned with the historical construction of images of Russia and Central Europe through fiction and looks at the pitfalls ofusing fiction as a historical source. In addition, the author uses concrete examples to consider Russian and Central European novelists* interest in history and to analyse the way they perceive the past. She is critical of the fragmentary fashion in which Western historians use images of Russian life in Russian fiction, sometimes oversimplifying and distorting. At the same time she raises a basic question for the image ofthe past: how was fiction read at the time ofits writing and how has fiction been used in the framework of social and cultural communication. At the theoretical level she reaches the conclusion that historians will have to ereate their own methods, distinct from the methods ofliterary critics, for estabfishing the importance that fiction had at a particulartime, in a particular political situation and within a certain social class or group.

Keywords

CS

historiografie; dějiny

EN

historiography; history

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Dějiny - Teorie - Kritika (History - Theory - Criticism)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 35-48
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Martina Winklerová

• Dějiny – Teorie – Kritika, redakce, Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v.v.i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic