Jiří Holý
Biographic Data
| ID | 6583320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiří Holý |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiří |
| FAMILY NAME | Holý |
| SIGNATURE | HOLÝ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6867-6109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Several Narrative Strategies in Yiddish and Czech Stories
This article deals with six short stories written in Yiddish and Czech analyzing their narrative strategies. In The German by Sholem Aleichem the limited first-person perspective of the story makes it impossible to look into the inner world of the German. Similar characters are presented in Aleichem’s Hard Luck and Elijah the Prophet. At the end of Hard Luck a dialogue breaks the limited perspective. The main character of Isaac Leybush Peretz’s T…
Bleierne und goldene Zeiten
The cultural diversity that characterized Czechoslovakia in the era of President Tomáš Masaryk was irretrievably lost after the Second World War. Under the repressive cultural policy of the communist regime, which started in 1948, literature was divided into “forbidden” (samizdat and exile publishers) and “permitted” publications. This division cannot be automatically equated with the presence or absence of literary quality. Nonetheless, the majo…
Conventions of Radka Denemarková’s Novel Peníze od Hitlera (Money from Hitler) along with its Reception
Radka Denemarková’s Peníze od Hitlera (Money from Hitler), edited in 2006, is a succesful novel. It has been perceived by critics as a significant work and traslated into ten languages. Despite this positive response, it is my belief that the novel is not an outstanding work. The construction of the text is full of stereotypes. It uses well-worn narrative procedures, conventional images and symbols as well as banal metaphors. That is why the cred…
Nontraditional images of the Holocaust in Czech literature and cinema
This article focuses on three nontraditional works of Czech literature and film production on the Holocaust that use elements of comedy and humor. The article discusses a Czech novel, Life with a Star (Život s hvězdou, written by Jiří Weil, published in 1949); a series of seven short stories, The Menorah (Sedmiramenný svícen, written by Josef Škvorecký, published in 1964); and six different versions of The Shop on Main Street (a short story, a se…
Pynsent's Representative Publication
Robert Pynsent, Ďablove, ženy a narod: Výbor z uvah o ceske literatuře. Prague: Karolinum, 2008, 644 pp., 450 CZK p/b. Robert B. Pynsent is undoubtedly the most well known British scholar involved
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Pynsent's Representative Publication
Robert Pynsent, Ďablove, ženy a narod: Výbor z uvah o ceske literatuře. Prague: Karolinum, 2008, 644 pp., 450 CZK p/b. Robert B. Pynsent is undoubtedly the most well known British scholar involved
Nontraditional images of the Holocaust in Czech literature and cinema
This article focuses on three nontraditional works of Czech literature and film production on the Holocaust that use elements of comedy and humor. The article discusses a Czech novel, Life with a Star (Život s hvězdou, written by Jiří Weil, published in 1949); a series of seven short stories, The Menorah (Sedmiramenný svícen, written by Josef Škvorecký, published in 1964); and six different versions of The Shop on Main Street (a short story, a se…
Conventions of Radka Denemarková’s Novel Peníze od Hitlera (Money from Hitler) along with its Reception
Radka Denemarková’s Peníze od Hitlera (Money from Hitler), edited in 2006, is a succesful novel. It has been perceived by critics as a significant work and traslated into ten languages. Despite this positive response, it is my belief that the novel is not an outstanding work. The construction of the text is full of stereotypes. It uses well-worn narrative procedures, conventional images and symbols as well as banal metaphors. That is why the cred…
Bleierne und goldene Zeiten
The cultural diversity that characterized Czechoslovakia in the era of President Tomáš Masaryk was irretrievably lost after the Second World War. Under the repressive cultural policy of the communist regime, which started in 1948, literature was divided into “forbidden” (samizdat and exile publishers) and “permitted” publications. This division cannot be automatically equated with the presence or absence of literary quality. Nonetheless, the majo…
Several Narrative Strategies in Yiddish and Czech Stories
This article deals with six short stories written in Yiddish and Czech analyzing their narrative strategies. In The German by Sholem Aleichem the limited first-person perspective of the story makes it impossible to look into the inner world of the German. Similar characters are presented in Aleichem’s Hard Luck and Elijah the Prophet. At the end of Hard Luck a dialogue breaks the limited perspective. The main character of Isaac Leybush Peretz’s T…
Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Czech (2 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · European Cultural and National Identity (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)