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CESTY ZA ZTRACENOU JEDNOTOU. PŘÍSPĚVEK K AUTORSKÉ POETICE MICHALA AJVAZE

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Gilk E.

World Literature Studies

2016

vol. 8

issue 2

76 – 88

The study deals with the poetics of all the prose fiction written by Michal Ajvaz (born 1949), who among contemporary Czech authors shows the greatest affinity towards magical realism, and, what is more, has even commented repeatedly on the connection between his works and this genre. We consider the metaphor of the “other city”, which we borrowed from the title of his best-known novel, to be the key to the interpretation of the ideological framework of his texts. Having been obviously inspired by phenomenology, Ajvaz, in his work, draws attention to the over-accustomed and indolent ways in which people perceive reality that has been reduced to a perspective from which one can see very little. Modified in various forms, Ajvaz’s stories ask the readers to start a journey towards the other, the different, and unknown, hereby emancipating themselves from the slavishly accepted schemes of acting and behaving prearranged by the European Cartesian tradition. However, the journey towards admitting the “other world” alone could be a challenging pilgrimage which is itself meaningful and does not follow any particular aim.

Jewish Traces in the Inter-War Prose Writing of Assimilated Authors

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Gilk E.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

2022

vol. 19

issue 39

151-160

The study deals with the thematisation of Jewishness in the inter-war prose writing of four authors from assimilated Jewish families: Richard Weiner (born 1884), František Langer (born 1888), Karel Poláček (born 1892) and Egon Hostovský (born 1908). Whereas the prose of the last-named author has received considerable attention in contemporary literary history, in the case of the remaining authors their Jewishness remains on the periphery of scholarly interest, or is mentioned in works of a synthetic character. A detailed reading of the work of all three prose writers reveals that for them Jewish culture did not represent an essential literary theme, and indeed they barely mentioned it whatsoever. An exception relates to the abundant references to anti-Semitism in Karel Poláček’s cycle of novels about the provincial town, which can be explained among other factors by the aggravated political situation in the second half of the 1930s.

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CESTY ZA ZTRACENOU JEDNOTOU. PŘÍSPĚVEK K AUTORSKÉ POETICE MICHALA AJVAZE

Jewish Traces in the Inter-War Prose Writing of Assimilated Authors