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Relation between individual and society in Jiří Weil's novels Moskva-hranice and Dřevěná lžíce
Cepník, Jakub ; Vojtěch, Daniel (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The topic of the thesis is the relationship between the individual and society in two novels written by Jiří Weil in 1930's - Moskva-hranice and Dřevěná lžíce. This relationship is observed in the context of the Marxist aesthetics of that time and also through literary analysis of both novels. The thesis consists of a theoretical part, an interpretative part and typology of the characters. The primary proposition is an appeal of Růžena Grebeníčková to read the novels not as a testimony of the historical reality in USSR, but as distinctive literary works. In the theoretical part, two conceptions of literature are introduced, the influence of which is evident in Weil's novels: the artistic conception of Soviet avant-garde group LEF, and the socialist realism of Bedřich Václavek. The thesis summarizes the artistic programme of both conceptions, examining their notion of the relationship between the individual and the society. Extra focus is given to to a different concepts of reality in both conceptions. While the LEF emphasizes the present, socialist realism gives more weight to the future. The interpretative part presents a structural and a naratologic analysis. It turns out that juxtaposition is frequently used in various layers of the novels. The interpretation also observes the relationship...

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