Cesta do pekel Václava Vokolka – groteskowa opowieść o końcu pewnego świata

• Authors: Aleksandra Pająk

Title variants

EN

Vaclav Vokolek’s Cesta do pekel – a grotesque story about the end of certain world

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Vaclav Vokolek’s fictional collage (the work contains 13 paintings, four conversations, sketch, two appendixes and romantic painting as an essential comment) is placed around the period of railway development and conspiracies that accompanied it. The author proposes the reader a journey to the world, where, on equal terms, coexist residents of a small city with representatives of hell. Their superior – Luc, who runs the company called SAT a. n., is supposed to take control over it and, during the test drive on newly built railroad, father a successor. Although it is possible to find clues that help to identifying fictional Téčín as Děčín in the north of Czech Republic, the work inclines towards a grotesque story about irretrievable end of certain world, which terminated maintaining its natural landscape.

Keywords

EN

railway; journey; devil; romantic painting; 19th century; Vaclav Vokolek

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski
• Journal: Studia Slavica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 115-126

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Pająk

• Uniwersytet Opolski, Instytut Slawistyki