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The journey motif in ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!
Šťastná, Anna ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Zaťko, Roman (referee)
This thesis analyses the journey motif in the novel ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!, which was written by Alejo Carpentier in 1933. The author had to leave Cuba, his birth country, for political reasons. He moved to Paris for 11 years where he gained a lot of inspiration for his literary production. The thesis therefore sets Carpentier to the cultural and historical context. Afterwards deliberates over variants of journey in literature, describes the journey horizontal, vertical, of life and the encounter motif, which is relationed to the journey motif. In the main part applies the theoretical findings to the analysis of the novel ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!. Journeys in the novel are undergone especially by its protagonist Menegildo, but also by the most important woman character Longina. In the final part the thesis presents the theory of lo real maravilloso and sketches other adaptations of the journey motif in later novels of Alejo Carpentier. Keywords Alejo Carpentier, the debut novel, the journey motif, ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!, Menegildo, Cuba
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