Published: 2021-06-07

Dva géniové českého literárního humoru 20. století: Josef Švejk a Jára da Cimrman

Bohuslav Hoffmann

Abstract

Following up some earlier and contemporary interpretative approaches, the study tries to see the novel of J. Hasek Good soldier Svejk as a literary work that anticipates many principles of the post-modern poetics. At the same time, it demonstrates how the literary mystification - moving between the amplitudes of ingenuity and stupidity, nobility and banality - is a source of a special type of humour that is characteristic of Czech culture in the 20th century. The representatives of this type of humour and mystification are Hasek's Josef Svejk and a fictitious Czech artist and inventor Jara da Cimrman who is the central character by many plays in Z. Sverak and L. Smoljak - the playwrights of the Theatre of Jara (da) Cimrman in Prague.

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Hoffmann, B. (2021). Dva géniové českého literárního humoru 20. století: Josef Švejk a Jára da Cimrman. Stylistyka, 10, 9–18. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/s/article/view/4116

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