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Literatura v perspektivě života, nebo život v perspektivách literatury?

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Češka J.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2014

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vol. 62

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issue 5

785-800

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This article examines a chronicle of Bohumil Hrabal's life and work: Hlučná samota: sto let Bohumila Hrabala, 1914-2014, --Too Loud a Solitude: A Hundred Years of Bohumil Hrabal, 1914-2014, the most valuable of all the publications to have come out on Hrabal's centenary. This chronology is outstanding for its critical presentation of the rich and varied archive material, in which the authors place Hrabal's key biographical and literary details, as well as some marginalia too, on his timeline. This is the first truly critical examination of Hrabal's life, and the most systematically supported by a knowledge of the sources. The chronology also raises questions that go beyond its intended horizons, as the authors are not only solving the riddles of literature, but they are also presenting the twists and turns of his life. However, as Hrabal assumes a creative and sometimes an almost imperceptibly ironic view of history and various events in the past, it would be worth considering an examination of his life from the standpoint of literature (and not just of literature from the standpoint of his life), which in spite of his considerable literary stylization is normally considered to be realistic and authentic in its way. This article focuses on further use of alternative sources that might help us to reveal certain narrative strategies that can be summarized under the term "illusion of reality". "Realism" can be seen in Hrabal's case to be an illusion constructed by particular strategies, which we can understand better by taking into account the alternative contexts.

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Iluzivnost jako kvaziargumentační postup: Barthes, Kundera a Flammarion : Literatura jako niterná vzpomínka na to, co jsme nezažili

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Češka J.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2012

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vol. 60

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issue 1

3-25

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2_Apart from Kundera and Barthes, I look at the work of Camille Flammarion, from the same point of view. His work concerns the line dividing life and death and also life and afterlife. The reason for choosing Flammarion was the duality of his position, as a celebrated scientist as his time, who also wrote 'academic' pieces about the afterlife. He wrote his quasi-scholarly works on a purely literary ground plan, even if he insisted that he was writing a report that had nothing to do with literature. This example demonstrates just how convincing literature can be when lacking a recognizable literary form. This may lead us to question whether literature (in its concealed illusory form) is the very principle of madness or vice versa.

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Literárně inscenované svědectví: k emancipačním strategiím v Hrabalově novele Jarmilka =

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Češka J.

Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)

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2014

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vol. 75

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issue 2

99-126

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This article deals with literary testimony as an author’s response to previous objectivation. We can observe objectivation in its delimited form through the act of arrest, as there is a sudden transformation of the subject into the object during this act. Inverse movement occurs in narrative where, through literary means, the narrator is staged as the center of meaning proliferation. Each of the two directions (objectivation and subjectivation) reveals a narrative position (the subject’s deprivation or, conversely, his emancipation), and in these, an inherent asymmetry between the subject and object of the narrative is present. That is, the other side of the emancipating gesture is objectivation. The narrator makes the characters into peripheral beings. This asymmetric situation is analogous to the relationship between the author and the reader. We specify this thesis in the interpretation of Hrabal’s early autobiographical novella Jarmilka. In this prose, Hrabal incorporates seemingly realistic elements, which are persuasive in spite of the fact that reality was the exact opposite of Hrabal’s description of it. Authenticity in literary testimony is thus aroused not by the depiction of reality, but rather, by specific literary devices.

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3 Češka J.

Literatura v perspektivě života, nebo život v perspektivách literatury?

Iluzivnost jako kvaziargumentační postup: Barthes, Kundera a Flammarion : Literatura jako niterná vzpomínka na to, co jsme nezažili

Literárně inscenované svědectví: k emancipačním strategiím v Hrabalově novele Jarmilka =