Až na konec světa. Struktura starých českých cestopisů

• Authors: Hrbata Zdeněk , Jaluška Matouš

Title variants

EN

To the Edge of the World: Structure of the Old Czech Travelogues

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Tis essay ofers a close reading of the Diary (c. 1465) of Squire Jaroslav, the Commentarius (c. 1467; Czech original lost, a Latin translation printed in 1577) by Václav Šašek of Bířkov, and the modern reworking of Šašek’s text in a children’s novel by Alois Jirásek (Až na konec světa, published in 1890). Te authors try to elucidate the characteristic features of these travelogues by examining the various kinds of fssures that can be found in each text. Troughout Jaroslav’s diary, for example, these rifs are indicated by “etc.”, which the reader is simply invited to fll in. Pavlovský introduces discontinuity into the story by inserting verbatim citations of various documents and charters that ultimately glorify Pavlovský’s benefactors, the family of the leader of Šašek’s legation, Lev of Rožmitál. Finally, Jirásek is presented as an exemplary post-medieval reader of antique texts who flls the ofered gaps with didactic content, anchoring his own agenda in the picturesque scafolding of a knightly quest to the edge of the world.

Keywords

CS

Cestopisy; starší česká literatura; pozorné čtení; medievalismus; poutní cesty; literatura pro děti

EN

travelogues; Old Czech literature; close reading; medievalism; pilgrimage; children’s literature

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 15-47

Contributors

author

Hrbata Zdeněk

• Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, Praha

author

Jaluška Matouš

• Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, Praha

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366680.2020.2.1