Pomlky“ románového vypravěče a „zapovězená“ řeč lidového vypravěče v románech Milana Kundery

• Authors: Galmiche Xavier

Title variants

EN

"Pauses" of the narrator and the "forbidden" speech of the storyteller in the novels of Milan Kundera

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Milan Kundera poetics is based on a “world of the romantic fiction built on the personal speech of the narrator” (M. Chvatík). Nevertheless, it enters in contradiction with some essays of Kundera himself, who centers on the figure of the storyteller, active figure of the narrative “from Rabelais to Laurence Sterne” (“Speech of Jerusalem”, resumed in The Art of the Novel). Kundera seems to give for task to the modern narrator to resuscitate an atavistic, pre-rational genius, chairing in instinctual desire to tell. Thus there is a contradiction between the ambition of recovery of the lively word — the voice of the storyteller — by the modern novel, and the actual practice of the story adopted by Kundera. This article tries to describe this paradox through one of these mythical categories approached in a recurring way by Kundera: that of laughter.

Keywords

CS

Milan Kundera; román; středoevropský román; vypravěč; pábitel; Bohumil Hrabal; smích

EN

Milan Kundera; novel; central-european novel; narrator; storyteller; Bohumil Hrabal; laughter

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 58
• Pages: 115-122

Contributors

author

Galmiche Xavier

• Univerzita Paris Sorbonne (Paris–IV)