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NESPOLEHLIVÉ VYPRÁVĚNÍ V PROZAICKÝCH TEXTECH LADISLAVA FUKSE

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Gilk E.

World Literature Studies

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2013

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vol. 5 (22)

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issue 1

76 – 91

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The paper deals with unreliable narration in the three prosaic works by Ladislav Fuks (1923−1994) from the 60ties of the 20th century: „Pan Theodor Mundstock“ (1963), „Variace pro temnou strunu“ (1966) and „Spalovač mrtvol“ (1967). Although narrative modes of these novels are different, just like category of unreliability can explain discrepancies of the text and of the construction of its fictional world. The researcher understands unreliability as a consequence of a violation of protagonist ́s personality, (schizophrenia, pubescent hypersensitiveness, or a hiding sadistic psychopathy). Unreliability in analysed texts which rank among Fuks’s most famous books must be perceived in scope of writer ́s ingenious and wide-ranging play with a reader. At the same time it can be rated an articulation of the time of the Nazi danger, which the narration of all texts is situated to, of the time endangered human dignity and liberty.

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Idylizace a idealizace česko-židovského soužití v prozách Vojtěcha Rakouse

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Gilk E.

Studia Slavica

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2013

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vol. 17

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issue 2

135-140

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The study deals with forgotten Czech writer Vojtìch Rakous (1862–1935). His short stories were published in periodicals of Czech-Jewish assimilative movement from the 80ies of the 19th century. They were assembled first in thin book Doma (1897) and then in representative anthology Vojkoviètí a pøespolní (1910), in 1926 widened in three parts. This anthology includes seven composed cycles with heroes of Jewish origine. The common life with majority Christian society is described without any conflicts, with harmonious traits. The author of study asks how much the representation of such life between two nations and two rival religions in the God is Rakous´ intention or it is in charge of real historical situation.

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Román o konci jedné epochy

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Gilk E.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2011

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vol. 59

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issue 4

547-572

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This essay is concerned with the largest and last finished work by the Czech novelist Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994), Vévodkyně a kuchařka (The Duchess and the Cook, 1983). The author seeks to interpret the universe of the presented fictitious world and to name the constant features of Fuks’s style that appear in the novel, which is the culmination of Fuks’s twenty‑year literary career, in a concentrated form. First of all, the essay considers Fuks’s motivation in selecting this historical material, which is almost unique in Fuks’s works. It then considers the structure of the motifs in the novel, Fuks’s trickster approach and his playing with the reader, which makes this novel much like a work of postmodern literature. The focus of the essay, however, is the Duchess Sofie, the protagonist, who is described in this essay as a total character because she contains the essence of the atmosphere of the Austro‑Hungarian Monarchy in the late nineteenth century, which the novel aptly captures. By her disposition and in particular her hypertrophied self‑reflection, however, the protagonist goes beyond the end of the great era and is untypical of the decaying world of the aristocracy. Connected to her character is the philosophically considered topic of the novel, the transience of human life and the question of the meaning of life. This question runs as a leitmotif through the whole novel and ensures the unity of its complicated semantic fabric.

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NESPOLEHLIVÉ VYPRÁVĚNÍ V PROZAICKÝCH TEXTECH LADISLAVA FUKSE

Idylizace a idealizace česko-židovského soužití v prozách Vojtěcha Rakouse

Román o konci jedné epochy