@article{13f9b6d2-c84e-4533-8b9a-80625e43cfcf, author = {Piotr Gierowski}, title = {The World of the New Myth: Sestra by Jáchym Topol}, journal = {Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis}, volume = {2020}, number = {Volume 15, Issue 2}, year = {2020}, issn = {1897-3035}, pages = {97-107},keywords = {Jáchym Topol; Guillame Apollinaire; contemporary Czech literature; myth; literary Cubism}, abstract = {Sestra 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.}, doi = {10.4467/20843933ST.20.008.11895}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/swiat-nowego-mitu-siostra-jachyma-topola} }