The study focuses on the characteristic features of Jáchym Topol´s creative style as represented in his prosaic work of the recent decade. Special attention is paid to the artistic reflexion on the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the context of poetics of literary characters.
This paper deals with the situation in the mid-nineteenth century when periodicals of the day featured heated discussions about national literature and a broader European context. This period of Czech literary history overlaps with the appearance of the Májovci [the “May School”], more precisely precedes it slightly. The study is based on the relevant chapter in Ivo Říha’s monograph Možnosti četby. Karolina Světlá v diskurzu literární kritiky druhé poloviny 19. století [Possible readings. Karolina Světlá in critical literary discourse of the second half of the nineteenth century] (Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2012).
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