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The Strategy of Asimilation in The Early Works of Patrick Modiano
Dufek, Adam ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
Keywords: Patrick Modiano, assimilation, narrator, occupation, autofiction Abstract: The strategy of asimilation in the early works of Patrick Modiano In this thesis the three novels by Patrick Modiano are analysed: La Place de l'étoile (1968), La Ronde de nuit (1969) and Les Boulevards de ceinture (1972). The thesis is concerned with the changes of the identity of the characters depending on the environment. In the beginning the work defines the social process of assimilation as perceived in modern sociology. The work deals with the narrative strategy of the author and tries to analyse the process of the assimilation of the characters and elements in common within the three works. The main goal of this work is to define where, why and how the characters are being assimilated and what is the author's intention and inspiration in using this subject.
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A Return to Classicism? Proust's Thinking about Love
Šťastná, Kristýna ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
A Return to Classicism? Proust's Thinking about Love A sceptical approach to love has always been represented in French literature, especially during the Classicism era. This work is an in-depth analysis of Charles Swann and his romantic relationship with Odette - as it is depicted in the first part of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. This paper attempts to verify if Proust, a 20th century author, remains anchored in the moral literary tradition and to what extent. The work examines Proust's understanding of love and compares it with the ideas of Classicism, which the author often references. The work also delineates how this pessimistic approach to love was further developed in French literature and philosophy. To what extent can, for example, Jean-Paul Sartre or Maurice Merleau- Ponty be considered as Proust's disciples?
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Dystopian Elements in Michel Houellebecq's Novel Submission
Svatošová, Eliška ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis is dedicated to the novel Submission (original title: Soumission) written by a contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq, where he depicts France in a foreseeable future governed by a president who is a member of Muslim political party. This work aims to analyse to what extent the book can be considered as dystopia or social science fiction. To be able to answer this question, we begin by analysing some of the representative books of the genre, namely 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Ashes, Ashes by René Barjavel. This first step allows us to establish the genre characteristics and then to compare Submission to them. Consequently, we can certify that the book has some of the features typical for dystopies and social science fictions, nevertheless this analysis let us discover aspects that exclude the book from the invoked category. Last but not least, we approach a subject of reasons that the author considers in his critique of the current French society to be crucial for the phenomenon that some call "the crisis of the West". Key words Houellebecq, Submission, dystopia, crisis of the West, social science fiction, political fiction, Islamization
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Barbey d'Aurevilly between Romanticism and Decadence
Lebedová, Anna ; Šuman, Záviš (advisor) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (referee)
(in English): The main objective of the thesis Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly between romanticism and decadence is not only to describe Barbey's novels Un Prêtre marié and L'Ensorcelée but specially to put these two works into context of decadent aesthetics. At the beginning of this work stood the question of whenever we can consider Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (similarly to Charles Baudelaire) to be a pioneer of the decadent movement. We will be analysing generally universal themes, such as love, pride or revolt, but we will see them through the prism of decadence, allowing them to obtain new meanings. The same motive of love, standing for passion in a romantic work, attains in Barbey's universe a character of a pathological instinct. We have divided our work into three chapters. The first one represents a theoretical part, in which we had put Barbey's work into its literary-historical context, and we had shown the topics of the generation of "disenchanted" romantics preceding the generation of decadents. Consequently, we have arrived at the main motives of decadence par excellence. The second chapter, in which we focus on the novel Un Prêtre marié, is then the essential core of our work. Through character analysis we study motives such as hysteria, incest, pride, sadomasochism, sexuality and others,...
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Minimalism in Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Work
Karkovský, Radek ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
In this thesis, the traces of minimalism, firstly the style typical for visual arts will be analysed in the work of Belgian novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint. On the basis of the three novels - Bathroom, Camera and Making Love - will be explained what the literally minimalism is based on, especially in thematic plane, processing of protagonists, narrative style and spatiotemporal anchoring. This work will dissert on mysterious female characters and their characteristics, but also on bizarre behaviour of male protagonists. Among other things, the structure of Toussaint's simple stories will be analysed and compared with other works of French literature; especially the elements of the Nouveau Roman will be accentuated. We will not miss passages about the author's obsession of unknown places (foreign cities, small hotel chambers, taxis etc.) and about author's language humour which is so popular with readers worldwide.
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Romain Gary, Modern Moralist of The 20th Century? Analysis of Narrative Technics in Four Author's Novels in Relation to His Ethics
Silvanová, Paulína ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
(in English) The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyse narrative techniques in four novels of Romain Gary: Au delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable, Éducation européenne, Clair de femme and La vie devant soi in relation to author's ethic. The thesis studies how narrative ends up in a plot via individual narrative techniques and it also studies the way works transmit moral or even didactical appeal to a reader. The main attribute is mostly the category of narrator, the role it plays in a text or the point of view from which the story is told. Character speech (monologues and dialogues) is not omitted, what allows the analysis to take place at several levels of the text. Subsequently, the thesis directs at the author himself, his ethic and thematic aspect of his work as such. In the centre of attention, there is also moralistic tradition in French literature and possible role of Romain Gary in this trend. His position in period French literature is interesting as well. In the end part, the thesis gives answer to a substantial question whether Romain Gary can be considered a modern moralist of the 20th century. It eventually justifies which narrative or thematic methods he uses are evidence of his affiliation with this literary trend and school of thought. Key words French novel,...
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The Open Work? Swann in love and its film adaptation (1984)
Bőhmová, Veronika ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
(in English): Our thesis is titled The Open Work? Swann in love and it's film adaptation. Our primary aim is not only to summarize the most famous theories about the openness of the work but also to apply these theories directly to the book Swann in love and subsequent comparison of the literary and film adaptation of the story. We have divided the thesis into three chapters. The first one is methodological overview. In our thesis we will deal with several phenomena from the field of literary science. We will be interested mainly in the character of the reader and the author and the different roles attributed to them by different theories. We will look closely at the differences between the empiric and model reader and the author, deal with the openness of the work, the difference between the subjects of the author, the narrator and the main characters, and we will also look into the theory of fictional worlds. We chose the work of Umberto Eco as a theoretical basis, but we also draw some ideas from the work of other literary theorists. In the second chapter, these theories will be applied to the specific passages of the book Swann in love. Let's get into the fictional world of Swan's love and watch the surroundings. We will try to conclude what the reader of this work should be, what mistaken...
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The Influence of Jack Kerouac on Jacques Poulin : Identity Search in On the road and Volkswagen blues
Töröková, Sára ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
Late 1950s, American writer Jack Kerouac publishes his novel On the road which completely change the perception of literature: 120-foot-long scroll of teletype paper, written in three weeks and using the technique of stream of conciousness, the novel narrate a story about Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty who are travelling around theUSA, inspired by Kerouac's own experience. The book has a roaring success and play an important role in forming a groupe of writers known as "beatniks". Almost 30 years later, Jacques Poulin publishes his sixth novel Volkswagen blues, story about a Canadian-francophone writer and a young Indian woman crossing the northamerican continent in order to find a lost brother. The objective of this thesis is to shed light on the influence of Kerouac's autobiographical narration on Poulin's work and analyse deeply the role of this American idol in the Canadian-francophone literature. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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"Who are we for the contemporary French poetry?" The search for identity in the collection La Chute des temps by Bernard Noël
Bratská, Johana ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
(in English) The diploma thesis "Who are we for the contemporary French poetry?" Searching for identity in poetry collection La Chute des temps by Bernard Noël aims to explore the contemporary - in this case primarily French - poetry. The first part is asking about the causes of poetry decline in sense of readership and popularity of such genre and seeks for an answer to the question what contribution does the poetry reading bring for a contemporary reader. Based on analysis of texts by literary critics, theoreticians and poets, the paper comes to conclusions, which are applied in the second part on the analysis of particular text by French poet Bernard Noël - La Chute des temps. The paper analyses the search for an identity "I" of the author and the reader, the musicality in verses as subconscious signature of the author, the relationship between the body of the poet, the reader and the poem itself and, last but not least, the metaphor of skin as the boundary between the inside and the outside. Key words: contemporary French poetry, literality, new lyric, Bernard Noël, identity of a subject, poetic space, musicality, flesh
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Dramaturgical and Aesthetical Development of Deux ex Machine in Selected Works by Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine
Balucha, Martin ; Šuman, Záviš (advisor) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (referee)
The present study focuses on a theatrical principle known as a Latin calque Deus ex machina meaning "God from the Machine". Although this plot device used to resolve a seemingly unsolvable problem is already mentioned in the Aristotle's Poetics, its application and understanding keeps developing. Moreover, the status of Deus ex machina among other theatrical constraints changes as well. The aim of this M.A thesis is to describe the evolution of this particular theatrical device in terms of aesthetics and dramaturgy of the 17th Century French Tragedy. The first part of the study is dedicated to a theoretical analysis of Deus ex machina. Therefore, we introduce the opinions of three French classicist theorists, namely Jean Chapelain, abbé d'Aubignac and Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière. In each of these theoretical works the theatrical device is analysed in the context of individual dramaturgical doctrines as well as in a close correlation with other theatrical rules. In the second part of the work we study the practical integration of Deus ex machina in six selected tragedies dealing with the legends on Iphigenia and Medea. In the entire work Deus ex machina is described mainly in the context of other "irrational" elements of the plot as they represent an inevitable part of a tragic action. Powered by...
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