Transformace žánru robinzonády v povídce Josefa a Karla Čapkových "Ostrov" (1912)

• Authors: Ute Marggraffová

Title variants

EN

Transformation of the Robinsonade genre in Josef and Karel Čapek's short story The Island (1912)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

While the lives and works of brothers Josef and Karel Capek have been investigated rather well over the past century, one of their first prose texts under the name of Ostrov, written in 1912, has been paid very little attention to this day. Created during the time leading up to the First World War, when European literature turned from Symbolism and Impressionism to Avantgarde with schools like Expressionism and Cubism, the narrative pursues the myth of the self-made-man, founded by Defoe in modernity, in an inverted way. The brothers provided their text with subliminal allusions to the fate of artist Gauguin, changing the space-time scheme of the genre’s paradigm. Unlike Defoe, by doing so they also assessed not only the contrast between mankind's self-alienated civilisation of a Western European nature and the longing for a non-alienated existence in an Arcadian island world recalling ‘locus amoenus’, but also used it for their own aesthetic and historic self-reflection.

Keywords

CS

Josef Čapek; Karel Čapek; Paul Gauguin; Vlastislav Hofman; Jurij Lotman; Skupina výtvarných umělců; česko-anglický literární transfer; intermedialita; robinsonáda; antiutopie

EN

Josef Čapek; Karel Čapek; Paul Gauguin; Vlastislav Hofman; Jurij Lotman; Group of visual arts; English-Czech literary transfer; intertextuality; intermediality; castaway story; dystopia

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 372-391
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ute Marggraffová

• Československá psychologie, redakce, Psychologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Politických vězňů 7, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic