Nekorektní Rychlopalba : společnost, zločin a žánr v detektivním románu Štěpána Kopřivy

• Authors: Stefan Segi

Title variants

EN

Incorrectness of Rapid Fire : society, crime and genre in Štěpán Kopřiva's detective novel

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study examines Štěpán Kopřiva’s detective novel Rychlopalba (Rapid Fire) in terms of criticism of political correctness, which is a prominent motif in the author’s literary output. The kontext of the novel consists of of Czech action fantasy literature, with which Kopřiva has been associated over the long-term, snd the detective genres which he utilizes: the American hardboiled fiction (and its Czech equivalent) and Nordic detective stories, i.e. genres critically assessed and at the same time very much socially engaged. From this standpoint Rapid Fire is the product of cultural transfer, in which the socially sensitive subjects of Nordic detective stories are transformed into the form of a critique of political correctness as a substantial menace to civilization and an obstacle to a key element in detective literature – the crime investigation.

Keywords

CS

detektivky; politická korektnost; severské detektivky; drsná škola; populární literatura; kulturní transfer; akční fantastika

EN

detective stories; political correctness; Nordic detective novels; hardboiled fiction; popular literature; cultural transfer; action fantasy

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 283-307
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Stefan Segi

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic