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Media responses of Italo Calvino's writing in the in Czech and Italian periodicals
Beníšková, Alena ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The objective of this thesis is the analysis of the media reception of chosen works of Italo Calvino in Czech and Italian periodicals. The first chapter discusses the literary criticism. The following chapter introduces the writer's life and moments determining his literary production. The mainstay of this work is divided into four chapters and is dedicated to the period literary crticism of the works chosen which were released in newspapers or literary periodicals both in Italy and the Czech Republic. The most significant reception showed the books The Path of the Spider's Nest, Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and Six Memos for the Next Millenium.
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Boundaries of the labyrinth. Literary Space in the Italian Postmodern Novels
Čaplyginová, Olga ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee) ; Pechar, Jiří (referee)
The Phd thesis titled Boundaries of the labyrinth and subtitled Literary space in the Italian postmodern novels strives for specification and closer definition of the genre of post-modern novel through the analysis of literary space. Formally, the thesis is divided into three parts. The first part aims to provide a theoretical introduction into the problems of three areas related to the given topic, namely the definition of postmodernity and postmodernism, the genre of the novel itself and last but not least the study of space in literature. The content of the second part is the actual literary and scientific analysis of the selected novels (Città invisibili and Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore by Italo Calvino, Notturno indiano by Antonio Tabucchi, Comici spaventati guerrieri by Stefano Benni and Oceano mare and City by Alessandro Baricco) which follows three basic and most frequent spacial topoi occurring in these novels, namely the topos of the city, the house-hotel and the road. The third and final section sums up the observed aspects and characteristics and strives to use them as a basis for determining a certain and generalizing spacial and temporal principle which would facilitate at least a partial characterization of the postmodern novel as an independent genre.
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Media responses of Italo Calvino's writing in the in Czech and Italian periodicals
Beníšková, Alena ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The objective of this thesis is the analysis of the media reception of chosen works of Italo Calvino in Czech and Italian periodicals. The first chapter discusses the literary criticism. The following chapter introduces the writer's life and moments determining his literary production. The mainstay of this work is divided into four chapters and is dedicated to the period literary crticism of the works chosen which were released in newspapers or literary periodicals both in Italy and the Czech Republic. The most significant reception showed the books The Path of the Spider's Nest, Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and Six Memos for the Next Millenium.
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Italo Calvino and his Italian Folktales (Fiabe Italiane)
HAVRDOVÁ, Radana
The thesis is focused on the topic Italo Calvino and Italian Falktales referring to the collection Sulla fiaba. This thesis presents the life and lifework of Italo Calvino, describes the studying of the Italian falktales, explains the influence of Ariosto at Calvino's production. My thesis devotes to the situation on the Italian territory and analyses the tales contained in the collection Fiabe italiane, in detail refers to the animals which appear in the tales from Tuscany, Sicily, Venice and Friuli. The thesis is written in Italian language.
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The Rappresentation of War in Italo Calvino's works
ŠIMKOVÁ, Marie
The objective of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the Italian writer Italo Calvino's works dealing with World War II and his involvement in the antifascist resistance, in the light of the fact that his personal experience and views on historical events of that time run through his works. The chosen books are analyzed according to the chronology of events, not the publication years. The initial part of the study introduces the author in relation to his family background, as it had an impact on his education, which is very often reflected in his works. In the light of this fact, the first book mentioned is La strada di San Giovanni, which explains how Calvino's family was such a source of inspiration for him, and which he dedicated to his family. Along with it, is also mentioned the short story Il ricordo di una battaglia, one of the stories included in the book, in which the author describes the only real battle he actively took part in, together with the real events, with a gap of thirteen years. The first book to read is L'entrata in guerra where the author depicts the first days of the entry of Italy into Secondo World War. He describes his own memories though he never uses his name real name. The second book analyzed is Ultimo viene il corvo. It is a storybook made of many short length stories and various themes, and therefore only those regarding war are analyzed. The common trait of these stories is the frequent use of allegory which reduces the heavy atmosphere of the historical events of that period and at the same time enables the reader to get a deeper understanding of the text, depending on their knowledge of the historical background. The last book mentioned is Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno which, thanks to the author's choice of narrator, is extraordinary: it is a nine-year-old boy Pin, who describes his adventures and the general atmosphere of the period through a naive and pure point of view, even though the topics handled are war and the oppression felt by people who decided to fight against the Nazi regime. A huge contrast comes out of the whole story as Pin is going through a time of self-discovery, and also growing up without a family, and at the same time he stays on the borderline between two worlds: he cannot understand the children of his age, and yet he is still to young to fully comprehend the world of adults. A way out of this situation seems to be the path where spiders have their nests and which consequently leads him to the person that he is trying to find the whole time. In this book, the author's inclination towards a fairy tale style is evident and will be developed further in his later works. In order to explain the allegorical links, the meaning of the works and the reasons that led Calvino to write these books, the historical background of that period, and also the author's active involvement, notes on the resistance movement and the author's active participation in it are added throughout the whole work.
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