The paper aims to show how two of the contemporary Czech postmodern writers deal with the fictional renarration of the princess Libuše myth. Pole a palisáda (The Field and the Palisade, 2006) by Miloš Urban brings forth a traditional conception of the story. Vilma Kadlečková wrote her story O snovačce a přemyslovi (Of the Weaver and the Premeditator, 2007 AND 2015) as a direct answer to Urban’s adapation and offers a completely different approach, setting the story into the future and reversing many of its elements. The differences between the two texts are shown in various areas: the concept of uncertainty, the role of nature, the usage of number and color symbolism and the approach to the problems of gender and sexuality.
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.