Piotr Gierowski
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2025
Piotr Gierowski
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 61-75
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.14.005.3052The study concerns the problem of Czech structuralism viewed as one of the “Czech dreams” (Vladimír Macura’s term which, in general, means a national myth). The article describes the Czech structural theory as part of the national identity and national imagery in the second half of the 20th century. The author focuses specifically on the process of semiosis of structuralism in the post-war Czechoslovakia, especially on its evaluation in the communist propaganda and its relation to the Marxist theory. The problem of its connection to the post-structural literary theory is also undertaken. The paper ends with a description of the role, position and evaluation of structuralism in the Czech literary theory after the year 1989.
Piotr Gierowski
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 13, Issue 4, 2018, pp. 271-283
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.18.023.9476Piotr Gierowski
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2020, pp. 97-107
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.20.008.11895Sestra by Jáchym Topol is one of the most important Czech novels, which were published after the year 1989. It describes the new reality of the 1990s as a generational experience with the distinctive mythological features. The paper will be an attempt to describe the process of the mythologization of the fictional world and to indicate its distinguishing features and means of creation of myth-like universe. A special attention is directed to the questions of the intertextual links between Topol’s novel and a poem Zone by Guillaume Apollinaire and the problem of literary Cubism.