The lecture thematizes the authorial reception of Franz Kafka in world literature. The author concentrates on the question of 'influence' while noting a triviality of inter-textual filiations among many contemporary (esp. American) authors. The problem of authorial reception appears much more seriously in the context of active authorial reception among some Central European writers, who find it necessary to come to terms with Kafka as one of the most symptomatic phenomena of modern literature. Going beyond Kafka has thus become the program of I. Aichinger, as well as P. Handke or P. Roth, but it also forms the background of the confrontation with Kafka in E. Cantetti. Productive employment of motifs from Kafka's work as universal and global cultural topoi can be found in the Japanese writer H. Murakami, whose work Kafka on the shore has brought a new model of authorial relationship to Kafka's work, among others.
The present paper dealing with Ivan Laučík´s (1944 – 2004) poetry is organized into several steps. It was inspired by M. Merleau-Ponty´s ideas about the chiasmus of corporeity and the world, about perceiving elements and things, about the functioning of the living language, fragmentarily known in the Czechoslovak context since the 1960s and probably marginally noticed by I. Laučík. The paper refines cave motifs, or topoi as a synecdoche of nature in Laučík´s poetry – it is done by confronting his own poems with Rudolf Těsnohlídek´s book of documentary essays Demänová published in the year 1926. An attempt at defining the semantics of the motifs is made by referring to Laučík´s essay about speleologist J. Volko-Starohorský, where there is a poetically inspiring designation crisis and a crisis situation of existential corporeal commitment projected into the relation between language and cave experience. The paper highlights as an interpretation problem the transition of Laučík´s poetry from an excessively „open“ way of writing of the late 1960s to relating his poetry of the 1980s to natural and cultural landmarks of the Liptov region, biographically well-known to the poet. These ideas are further exemplified by critical reading of three poems. The poem Jahoda (Strawberry, collection Vzdušnou čiarou, As the crow flies, 1991) shows Laučík´s participation in a latent discussion of the 1980s about ecology, the critical reading documents the biographical context of the poem, notices irony and a commemoration gesture. The poem Alexy´s pastel moves on from the visual work of art to reviving its model – a sacred architectural monument falling into a ruin at that time and shows so far unnoticed possibility or form of Laučík´s poetry – a „quasi-geographical recording of history“. In the case of the poem Milí priatelia! (Dear Friends!, end of the collection Na prahu počuteľnosti, On the Threshold of Audibility, 1988) brief fragmentary critical reading uses the motif of a hat to refine the chiasmus between communication and anonymous loneliness, as well as the motif of avalanche in the sense of liberating risk and disaster. The paper situates Laučík´s poetry, which is difficult to read and sometimes even hermetic.
The study offers conclusions on research aimed at the transmission of religious messages through the media. The main research question, if media language is able to communicate religious messages, is analyzed by the author through the antique topoi, common ideas, fundamental convictions, on which the communicated messages are based and which guarantee their transmitting to the recipient and the effect on his or her thinking and doing. The author compares the topoi of the original religious messages in the church media and the religious messages processed in the secular media. She comes to certain findings as to their clear difference and synthesizes the derived topoi to related groups. There she indicates the main points of contradiction, the concurrence of the religious and media communicators, and offers certain starting points for thinking over the most effective forms of religious communication in the media.
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