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ŽIVOT, KTERÝ SE STAL ROMÁNEM: AUTOFIKČNÍ ŽIVOTOPISY OTY FILIPA

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Tlustý J.

World Literature Studies

2023

vol. 15

issue 4

67 – 82

The article examines the Czech author Ota Filip’s auto-fictional texts Sedmý životopis (The seventh autobiography, 2000) and Osmý čili nedokončený životopis (The eighth or unfinished autobiography, 2007) in the intersection of several contexts. Based on archival research of Filip’s estate, it reconstructs their complex genesis and examines the factors that influenced their final edition, as well as the differences between the Czech and German versions of Sedmý životopis. The study analyses the narrative as well as broader textual and paratextual strategies that create the hybrid status of the two “autobiographies” and provide the reader with contradictory instructions: to read the texts as autobiography and/or as fiction. This tension is also investigated with regard to the reception of Filip’s texts. The study further exposes some of Filip’s mystifications and reveals how he uses the porous boundary between fact and fiction to come to terms with his traumas and media scandals, and to create a socially acceptable image of himself. Both autobiographies are also placed in the broader context of Filip’s literary works and contemporary Czech literature.

BRATISLAVA AS A CULTURAL BORDERLAND IN THE DANUBIAN NARRATIVES OF PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR AND CLAUDIO MAGRIS

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Sabatos C.

World Literature Studies

2020

vol. 12

issue 4

3 - 19

This article examines the Danube as a site of cultural memory and exploration, focusing on the descriptions of Bratislava as seen by British travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor in A Time of Gifts (1977) and Italian literary scholar Claudio Magris in Danubio (1986; Danube , 1989). For both Leigh Fermor, who saw it in the 1930s, and Magris, who visited the city in the 1980s, Bratislava serves as a border between the familiar West and the exotic East, and as a site of nostalgia for what Magris describes as “a multiple and supranational culture [koiné]”. When seen in relation to the debate over Central European identity in the 1980s, both narratives look to the Slovak capital’s multilingual past as a sign of its “margin centric” history, but Leigh Fermor’s trilogy has largely been overlooked by theorists of Danubian culture, while Magris has been accused of complicity with the forces of oppression (from Habsburg to Communist) described in his work.

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ŽIVOT, KTERÝ SE STAL ROMÁNEM: AUTOFIKČNÍ ŽIVOTOPISY OTY FILIPA

BRATISLAVA AS A CULTURAL BORDERLAND IN THE DANUBIAN NARRATIVES OF PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR AND CLAUDIO MAGRIS