Streekromans en het Tsjechische ruralisme
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2013
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Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English
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In the Netherlands regional novels have never been considered as real literary
works. In Flanders regional literature had a better status, especially because several writers
of the Van Nu en Straks movement such as Stijn Streuvels wrote about regional themes.
In Czech literature since 1848 regional themes was viewed as important in novels and stories, mainly till the end of World War II . In 1932 the Catholic writer Antonín Matula
defined the so-called Ruralism, which became a movement of mainly Catholic writers from the countryside. Most of them were severely persecuted in a constructed Stalinist
show trial against the Green International in 1951. In his work Hlasy země v evropských literaturách (The Voice of Earth in European Literatures, 1933) Matula discussed nearly all major European literatures, i.e. Flemish regional writers. It is no coincidence that
especially Flemish writers such as Ernest Claes, Stijn Streuvels and Felix Timmermans, were translated into Czech during the second quarter of the 20th century.
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regional novels, ruralism, Dutch literature, Flemish literature, Czech translation, Antonín Matula, Green International, communist persecution
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Werkwinkel vol. 8(2), 2013, pp. 141-156