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Między powieścią a przypowieścią. Biblijne paralele prozy Jana Balabána

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Sielicki R.
Studia Slavica
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2013
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vol. 17
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issue 2
215-224
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The vast majority of Jan Balabán’s works are short stories. They are regarded by many as dark and obscure, which led some to discover symbolic dimension of his prose. The form of writing applied by the author could have been influnced on the one hand by American literature and on other hand by evangelical way of education he got at home. Typical for protestants was teaching children biblical stories, especially New Testament parables. The analysis of Jan Balabán’ works lead to discover many biblical quotes and motives in his books. He creates some of his stories in the image of New Testament parables and describes some of the characters as if they were biblical heroes. He also name some of them in the biblical way by giving them prefix „no” at the begining of their names. There are many differences between the form of parable used by New Testament and the stories of Jan Balabán. However, some similarities can also be seen. This seems to give his prose some existential dimension.
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Preferované rodinné vztahy a jejich nesamozřejmost v prózách Jana Balabána

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Markoš M.
Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
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2021
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vol. 69
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issue 3
343-360
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This paper deals with the prose works of Jan Balabán. It focuses mainly on the contradictions between idealized notions of the family and relationships within it and the “reality” of the fictional world, which does not match these ideas. The methodological contribution is based on anthropological literature, mainly regarding Wolfgang Iser’s idea (literature as a medium which facilitates anthropological experience that is otherwise unattainable), but also considers the sociological theories of Zygmunt Bauman involving liquid modernity and the fixed and pure relationships of Anthony Giddens.
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„Palimpsesty alkoholowe” ostrawskiego outsidera Jana Balabána

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Żygadło-Czopnik D.
Slavica Wratislaviensia
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2015
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vol. 161
313 - 320
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Jan Balabán was aCzech writer, journalist and translator, living and working, until his sudden death in the year 2010, in Ostrava. His most important work is acollection of short stories It May Be That We Go, which was called Book of the Year 2004 by Lidove Noviny and the Magna Litera 2005 for prose, and was nominated for the State Prize for Literature 2004. Another of his works is the collection of stories titled Holiday. His books are very interesting to the reader, and they deal with profound themes. The author testifies about the way we live, and he often discusses loneliness, which is the default situation in his books. Characters in his works are regular people dealing with regular issues, like poverty, tragedies, loneliness or bankruptcy. Balabán’s books are mostly about people with no roots: alcoholics, intellectuals, parents and their children, people who love and who leave each other.
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O nutnosti psaní literárních dějin i po konci dějin

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Eshelman R.
Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
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2015
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vol. 12
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issue 23
94-104
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The article advocates a return to an explicitly epochal (binary) approach to literary history, in place of the dominant poststructuralist approach which focuses on the way a plurality of discourses interact in and around literature. In particular, the article attempts to provide specific criteria for delineating the epoch after post-postmodernism, which the author calls “performatism”. The distinguishing features of this new epoch are: 1) double framing (narrative closure); 2) semiotic monism (ostensivity); 3) a separate, dense subject, 4) a set towards transcendence; and 5) the stylization of authorial dominance over the text. The paper defines in detail how these criteria differ from postmodernism and then applies them to the short story Seno by Jan Balabán.
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