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Faces of Korean postmodern literature
Hasalíková, Silvie Anna ; Löwensteinová, Miriam (advisor) ; Mazaná, Vladislava (referee)
This work focuses on the short stories of three postmodern Korean authors: Pak Mingyu (b. 1968), Kim Yŏnsu (b. 1970), and Kim Chunghyŏk (b. 1971). The goal is to describe and analyze a representative sample of Korean short stories and, through the results of this analysis, to outline the direction of postmodern male short story creation. The theoretical part of the work examines the characteristics of Korean literature from the 1980s to the present day, Korean postmodern literature, and the formation of authors' literary personalities. In the practical part, the authors' selected short stories are analyzed using narratological categories, including tracing and describing the present leitmotifs. The final part summarizes the motives of individual authors and attempts to characterize Korean short story creation in the postmodern era. A sample translation of one of the analyzed short stories, Pak Mingyu's "Bridge Arch," is included. Keywords Korean, Postmodern, short story, Park Mingyu, Kim Chunghyok, Kim Yonsu, analysis, motivic
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Recurring motifs in the novels of Ch'oe Inhun
Hasalíková, Silvie Anna ; Löwensteinová, Miriam (advisor) ; Mazaná, Vladislava (referee)
The subject of this bachelor's thesis is recurring motifs in the novels of the Korean writer and playwright Ch'oe Inhun, who was one of the most eminent representatives of the Korean literary scene of the 1960s, also known as the Second Modernism. The first part of the thesis deals with the political background of the cultural scene of the 50s-60s, a brief description of the literature of the 60s, the author's life, and the response to the author's work in the context of South Korean literary criticism. The second analytical part focuses on two of his works - The Square and A Day in the Life of Mr. Gubo, Novelist. In this part of the work, I observe the composition of the novels, categories of space, and time, but most importantly I focus on the recurring motifs in his work.
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