Jan Neruda padesátých a šedesátých let jako baladik: nejistota životního určení a smysl moderní literatury

• Authors: Eva Blinková Pelánová

Title variants

EN

Jan Neruda as a balladeer in the 1850s and 1860s: the uncertainty of life’s destination and the meaning of modern literature

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The present study deals with Neruda’s authorial work on certain themes and (balladic) narratives. Broader intertextual and comparative interrogation takes into account the emergence of the pre-romantic or sentimental ballad (with focus on texts by Bürger, Goethe and Poe). Balladicity, as we call the discussed feature of Neruda’s own poetics, makes it possible to link up the interpretive starting points available for the Tales of the Lesser Quarter and the Arabesques with the author’s poetry, as we demonstrate in his Books of Verse. In light of several interpretative surveys and Baudelaire’s approach to quotidianity and modernity, the study concludes by Neruda’s idea of a historically conditioned and humanly valid artistic “truth”.

Keywords

CS

preromantická umělá balada; próza s výraznou syžetovou výstavbou; fantastická literatura; každodennost/všednost; "zbyteční lidé" ruské literatury; J. Neruda; J. W. Goethe; K. J. Erben; Ch. Baudelaire

EN

pre-Romantic literary ballad; prose with distinctive plot construction; fantasy literature; everyday life; “unnecessary people”, Russian literature; J. Neruda; J. W. Goethe; K. J. Erben; C. Baudelaire

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 24-51
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Eva Blinková Pelánová

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