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The Cremator: The Fetish as The Denial of Life and The Adoration of Death
Němcová, Veronika ; Češka, Jakub (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee)
The Cremator: The Fetish as The Denial of Life and The Adoration of Death Summary The object of interest in the semiotic analysis of the literary work "The Cremator" by the Czech writer Ladislav Fuks are primarily the motifs of fetishism and the cult of death. This framework is examined in the relation to the specific "new" language of masochism and in the relation to the aphasic language disorder related to metonymy. The utterance of the main character Karl Kopfrkingel intermingles with the way he thinks and consequently acts, as he duplicates through his language a fictional world and obscures it with the fetishized descriptions adoring the death. In this case, the masochism is not manifested in a sexuality (as in the case with Masoch), but on the ethno-social level related to the personal myth crisis and the subsequent transformation of Kopfringel and the related environment of the fictional world. These aspects become to a murdering urges in the context of ethnic affiliation, which has become to an obstacle and the settlement with it demands the establishment of a new order. Keywords Ladislav Fuks, The Cremator, aphasia, metonymy, metaphor, fetishism, fiction worlds, identity, masochism, sadism
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History and myth in the novel Terra sonâmbula by the Mozambican author Mia Couto
Trsková, Klára ; Dufková, Vlasta (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the way categories of history and myth project into the novel Sleepwalking Land, as well as discuss the importance of Mia Couto's work for the mozambican cultural renewal during the post-civil war period. The study presents a syntesis of primary sources, focusing mainly on mozambican history in the signification of the myth, mythic time, animism, animatism, religious fetishism and ancestor reverence and their projection into the novel.
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