Věcnost v povídkách Ladislava Dvořáka

• Authors: Pokorná Zuzana

Title variants

EN

Objectivity in short stories of Ladislav Dvořák

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article examines the prosaic works of Ladislav Dvořák (1920–1983), specifically the collection of short stories entitled Šavle meče. It analyses the construction of Dvořák’s texts with regard to their significant aspect, the connection between reality and the world depicted in the narrative. It argues against the approach that take the stories as a source for study of the author’s biography and reverse the relation, thus the author’s life is merely a basic material for constructing the literary universe. The analysis is based on the theories of Přemysl Blažíček and Milan Jankovič, who treat the specifics of creating meaning in literature. With the help of the concept of ‘objectivity’, adapted for literary interpretation, the role of facts, description and narrator in the text is explored. The study concludes that the meaning in the short stories of Ladislav Dvořák is created mainly by situatedness of the narrator, whose goal is to mediate his own life experience in the process of its formation and its indefiniteness.

Keywords

CS

Ladislav Dvořák; Šavle meče; povídka; věcnost; reálie; popis; vypravěč; Přemysl Blažíček; Milan Jankovič

EN

Ladislav Dvořák; Šavle meče; short story; objectivity; fact; description; narrator; Přemysl Blažíček; Milan Jankovič

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 28
• Pages: 96-114

Contributors

author

Pokorná Zuzana

• Ústav české literatury a komparatistiky Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy