Publication details
Místa přechodu v Podobojí Daniely Hodrové
| Title in English | Thresholds in Daniela Hodrová's Podobojí |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In the context of Czech prose of the 1990s, Daniela Hodrová can be classified as belonging to the postmodern, fantastic or imaginative line of Czech prose. The space of the novel Podobojí (1991) is characterised by the narrative as ambiguous, and thus dualistic. Places are characterized by their dynamism, constantly changing and inverting, and are influenced by the individual perspective of the characters. Cyclical time also plays a role in the transformation of places. Ambiguous places have the potential to become thresholds between fictional worlds, where the fantastic element enters the fictional world and thus hybridizes its nature. The central thresholds are Olšany Cemeteries and the house on the opposite street. The interpenetration of the world of the living with the world of the dead is then an important fantastic element of the whole novel. The core of the paper is an introduction to the fictional world of the novel Podobojí, an analysis of the thresholds and the fantastic fictional elements in the narrative. It primarily asks what is the nature of the boundary between the primary and secondary fictional worlds and what is the relationship between the fantastic element, mythology and national historical memory in the narrative. |
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