"Toť utopie!": Newtonův mozek Jakuba Arbesa a počátky české science fiction v žánrovém pohledu

• Authors: Ivan Adamovič

Title variants

EN

“This is utopia!”: Newton’s Brain by Jakub Arbes and the first stirrings of Czech science fiction from a genre perspective

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Jakub Arbes’s (1840–1914) Newtonův mozek (Newton’s Brain) is one of his first series of “romanettos”, a recently created genre that was associated with him in particular. However, Newton’s Brain was later referred to as a Czech science fiction forerunner and the very first Czech science fiction prose work. The following article analyses how close Newton’s Brain is to the science fiction genre, both in terms of traditional criteria and more recent views on literary genres, which perceive genre not as an immutable literary category, but as a historically anchored process inherently connected with the publication, reading and reflection upon a given group of texts.

Keywords

CS

Jakub Arbes; Newtonův mozek; žánry literární; science fiction; definice žánru; počátky žánru

EN

Jakub Arbes; Newtonův mozek; literary genres; science fiction; definition of genre; genre origins

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 269-287
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ivan Adamovič

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic