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Motivy-šifry pozdního Hrabala

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An analysis of the works of Bohumil Hrabal, beginning with 'Kouzelna fletna' from January 1989, which operate in the sphere of journalism. It argues that these works continue to be experimental and are to some extent interconnected, based on the variation, mirroring, and meeting of certain themes. It seeks to demonstrate this in connection with, among things, Karl Jaspers' concept of 'ciphers'.
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This article is based on a Hrabal motif from the introduction of his novel Vita nuova (1986), diagonal reading. Unlike most interpretations I argue that this concept need not be bound merely to the motif of the fluency of the text and the absence of punctuation, but also to the motif of the halting of the reading process, which I shall provisionally call a ‘gap’. Comparing Hrabal’s text with passages from Barthes’s Le plaisir du texte (1973), I endeavour to demonstrate that Hrabal has formulated a paradoxical experiment, probably unique in modern literature: he de­mands inattentive reading whereas the modern experimental novel demands attentive reading. (Barthes links inattentive reading with the classical narrative, which he terms the ‘lisible’, readerly). In short, the uniqueness of this experiment consists in Hrabal’s actually writing, as he stated, something that he assumed the reader would not read.
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In connection with Andrei Pleşu’s Despre îngeri (On Angels, 2003) the author analyzes the nature of the fictional world in Bohumil Hrabal’s Příliš hlučná samota (Too Loud a Solitude, 1977), using many quotations to demonstrate the parallel between the angels of the former work and Hanťa, the protagonist of the latter.
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The article addresses the problem of the city as a semiotic space that is defined by its boundary. The first part of the paper presents some of the models of this semiotic boundary and then looks at the city in Bohumil Hrabal’s novel In-House Weddings (1984). Methodologically, the article draws on semiotic works of J. M. Lotman and K. H. Stierle. Hrabal’s novel provides an image of the city in the period of political upheaval. This can be seen as a re-coding of the old arrangement of the city to a new one and is exemplified on the fates of several characters. Several borderline protagonists, namely the central protagonist – the narrator – and the character of the doctor come to the fore in this process. These, rather than creating the outer limits of the city, form its inner boundaries. They share some features with the inhabitants of the city, but also occupy the position of strangers. They belong neither to the old nor the new political establishment and attempt to flee the city or view it from the position that is different from both relatively static establishments. Further on, a key role in this respect is played by elements of disorder owing to which the city’s semiosphere vanishes into unrestrained chaos. In this respect, it is possible to relate Hrabal’s text to the catastrophic model that exceeds the purely semiotic approach.
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