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Poetics of Space in Durych´s Novel Boží duha and Körner´s Short Novel Adelheid
KRLÍN, Jan
This thesis deals with poetics of space in books Boží duha (God?s Rainbow) and Adelheid. Both these works are outstanding in contrast with the previous writings. Especially Boží duha, that was written in the first half of the fifties, sharply contrasts with the writings that had emerged earlier. Both Boží duha and Adelheid deal with the issue of expulsion of Germans from the Czech borderland. The issue of expulsion has been dealt with immediately after the World War II in the novel Dům na zeleném svahu (House on a Green Hillside) by Anna Sedlmayerová. The task of Germans is depicted negatively, but besides the enthusiasm from the colonization, there is also a sign of showing sympathy. In Země dokořán (A Country Wide Open) by Bohumil Říha the childlike idyll without any signs of disputability is being created. The most distinct opposition to Boží duha and Adelheid is presented in the novel Nástup (Line Up) (1951) by Václav Řezáč. In this work dominates he schematization in determination of German and Czech people?s qualities. Germans are expelled and Czech colonialists can happily cultivate their possessions. Boží duha represents a completely different grasp of the issue of expulsion and thus surpasses the contemporary context. Adelheid belongs to the broad group of works that were created in the sixties and which were able tore act more freely to the binding of works created in the fifties. Space is an important narratological category and is being determined by the mutual relations with other categories of narration, especially with time and characters. Constituted space in artistic texts is perceived in their interpretation as a significant category of literary texts. Analysis of following novelettes points out to the meaning of areas out of which one comes out. Areas form the identity and behavior of people. Just the differences of the initial areas result in the fact that the reader perceives Lotman?s spatial conception of ?We? and ?They? of particular characters in a different way. For some characters the border between ?We? and ?They? is unsurpassable, while others pass freely through. The significance of these works and their overlap into the present is caused by the fact that they work with the notions of regret and forgiveness. Without them it is not possible to overcome barriers.

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