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Rewritings in the postmodern novel. A transatlantic comparison between Roberto Bolaño and Jáchym Topol
Martínez Abarca, Laura ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Riebová, Markéta (referee) ; Areta Marigo, Maria Gema (referee)
This thesis is a comparative analysis between the novels Amuleto (Amulet 1999) by Roberto Bolaño and Misiones nocturnas (Night work 2001) by Jáchym Topol. Novels from different regions that, besides being written on the threshold of the 21st century, are inspired by the traumatic events of 1968 in Mexico and Prague, respectively. Even more important for this research is the identification in both works of some aesthetic tendencies attributed to postmodernity: the mixture of different genres, the fusion between the old and the new and the fragmentary aesthetics. This study focuses mainly on the rewriting of literary genres, which occurs in various dimensions: either as an innovation of popular genres such as the fairy tale and the detective story, or as a reinvention of writings such as the Greek myth and oral narratives such as the Czech foundational myth. Thus, the first chapter is devoted to the aesthetic characteristics of postmodernism found in novels. The second chapter analyzes the rewriting of the predominant genres in the works: the detective story in Amuleto and the fairy tale in Misiones nocturnas. Finally, the third chapter studies the rewriting of the archetype. Key words: postmodern novel, literary genres, trans-Atlantic studies, rewriting, 1968, Jáchym Topol, Roberto Bolaño
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Reflection of the Indigenous world in the 20 th Century Latin American Essay
Núňez Tayupanta, Lucie ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Poláková, Dora (referee) ; Riebová, Markéta (referee)
Reflection of the Indigenous World in the 20th Century Latin American Essay PhDr. Lucie Núñez Tayupanta Abstract This dissertation focuses on the study of essayistic works which reflect the presence of indigenous world and its cultural traditions in Latin America. The aim of this work is to answer the question of how Latin-American essayists consider the contribution of the indigenous heritage to the creation of national identity. Furthermore, the work aims to point out the differences in approach of the essayists and to emphasize specific elements of this process in their works. At the beginning, the thesis deals with the theoretical definition of the genre of essay which is primarily based on studies of Spanish and Latin-American critics. The main part is devoted to the analysis of six essayistic works where three different approaches to the relationship between cultures are evident. The harmonic conception is present in the work of the Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes. Reyes finds common features between the original (pre- Columbian) and the contemporary culture and observes a blending of these two units. In the case of Reyes' text, we can see an effort to find a harmony in the fusion of cultures, the European and indigenous tradition. In the second approach, the dramatic, there can be found two views....
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Devil Guardian: The Theme of Identity in Mexican Novel on the break of the Millenium.
Alon, Andrea ; Vydrová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Housková, Anna (referee) ; Riebová, Markéta (referee)
The theme of the dissertation submitted is the novel Devil Guardian, whose author is a Mexican writer Xavier Velasco. This dissertation is the very first theoretical work in the Czech environment, devoted to the above-mentioned piece of literature published in 2004. In a sense, Devil Guardian represents a characteristic Mexican novel of the early 21st century, combining tradition and novelty in a surprising and original manner. A significant feature of the contemporary Mexican literature is a departure from the theme of Mexicanity, generally from a programmatic indulging in so-called national literature. Velasco's novel is an exemplary, however, not only piece of literature proving that the literary break-up with Mexico is neither an exclusive nor a dominant attribute of the contemporary Mexican fiction. In Devil Guardian Velasco focuses his mind on the theme of personal and national identity, which he treats in a considerably nontraditional manner, giving an ironical turn to speak to a hypermodern girl moving in the globalized world. The dissertation is divided into six parts. The first part "Originality Rooted in Tradition" refers to Devil Guardian ensuing the tradition of Mexican novel and innovating it. The second part "Xavier Velasco" briefly introduces the author's life and work. The issues...
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The Poet and the Chronicler. Reflection of the Spanish American reality in the prose of Octavio Paz and Carlos Monsiváis
Riebová, Markéta ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Kudlová, Klára (referee) ; Vydrová, Hedvika (referee)
1 THE POET AND THE CHRONICLER. Reflection of the Spanish American reality in the prose of Octavio Paz and Carlos Monsiváis ABSTRACT Analysing selected essays by Octavio Paz and literary crónicas by Carlos Monsiváis we try to demonstrate that the relationship between the literary and journalistic works of the two authors is that of complementariness rather than opposition as many literary critics have understood it. Joint reading of the works of these two perhaps most important Mexican intellectuals of the second half of the 20th century facilitates their understanding as both Paz's and Monsiváis's critical thinking comes out of the 19th century Mexican liberal tradition. The first chapter deals with the literary representation of the crucial year of 1968 in Mexico in the Critique of the pyramid (Crítica de la pirámide, 1970) by Octavio Paz and in Days to remember (Días de guardar, 1970) by Carlos Monsiváis. We concentrate on the metaphor and the irony as different modes of historical imagination of the studied authors, on the sources of their figurative expression (holistic archetypal conception of the world in contrast to the fragmenting use of polyphony) and the tone which the authors use to address their readers. We consider the ideas of Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur and M. M. Bakhtin as our theoretical...
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