Frenezja sadyczna po czesku: Křesadlo, Zykmund, Urban
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2011
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Wydawnictwo Rys (nr 1)
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Sadistic frenzy in Czech literature: Křesadlo, Zykmund, Urban
Abstract
In Czech literature of the second half of 20th century a sadistic frenzy is present
in several few novels by Jan Křesadlo, Václav Zygmunt and Miloš Urban.
Although Czech writers do not copy the work of Marquise de Sade, they do
use the motif of sadism to diagnosis the human condition in modern times, just
as he did. In his novels Gravelarks and The Lord of Castle Křesadlo comes
back to the times of Czechoslovakian Stalinism. In the novel Graduates’ Jubilee
Zykmund criticizes the middle-class mentality, while Urban, in his novel
Michaela, depicts a world between fiction and reality. Czech authors present
the sadistic frenzy as a synthesis of exclusivity and primitiveness. In this way
they express the more general subject, that is the relationship between culture
and nature in modern times. A more or less perceptible deformation of nature
is a side-effect of human aspirations to rule over nature. The sadistic frenzy
shows a extreme variant of this phenomenon.
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Frenzy, Sadism, Czech literature, Křesadlo, Zykmund, Urban
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Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2011, nr 1, s.193–205