The problems of development of the Czech historic novel in 1940–60s

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Keywords:

Czech literature of the 1940–60s, historical novel, biographical prose, the Irasek tradition, historical allegories, the transformation of the genre, the rapprochement of the historical genre with the apocrypha, irony, entertainment

Abstract

The article highlights the problems of the development of the historical genre in the Czech literature of the 1940–60s, gives a broad panorama of the development of the historical prose of the period, authors and their works are named, their place and role in the literary process are determined, and their ideological and genre-style features are characterized. The problem of the traditional and innovative in the Czech historical novel of this time is being solved. The main trends of development within each time interval, connected with certain historical and cultural events in Czechoslovakia, are singled out.

Author Biography

  • Alena U. Vostrykаva, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (philology), docent; associate professor at the department of theory of literature, faculty of philology

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2019-03-01

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No. 1 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

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Vostrykаva A.U. 2019. The problems of development of the Czech historic novel in 1940–60s. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 1 (Mar. 2019), 72–82.