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University of Pardubice
Searching for an Image of a Village in the Vortex
of the 20th-century Ideological Conflicts:
A Thematological Sketch from Contemporary Czech
and Slovenian Literatures
During the last twenty-five years, the motif of a village has appeared
quite frequently in Slovenian literature, where it is present either as
a space of lyricisation and poetisation of the exoticism of the Oth
er (Lainšček, Tomšič), or as a neglected, dark space without future
(Ki jo je megla prinesla). While Czech literature showed a lack of in
terest in the motif of a village in the 1990s, Czech writers have re
cently started to discover the village as a place distinctly connected
with wild, untamed nature (Bajaja), magic traditions (Tučková), or a
place of half-hidden ideological conflicts stemming from recent past
(Hájíček). The village has gained considerable relevance as a place
of the key ideological conflict between the absolutist bad-will of to
talitarianism and the village community where the latter is one with
the earth, faith, and tradition, and where the totalitarian regime
tries to uproot the village community.
University of Pardubice
Searching for an Image of a Village in the Vortex
of the 20th-century Ideological Conflicts:
A Thematological Sketch from Contemporary Czech
and Slovenian Literatures
During the last twenty-five years, the motif of a village has appeared
quite frequently in Slovenian literature, where it is present either as
a space of lyricisation and poetisation of the exoticism of the Oth
er (Lainšček, Tomšič), or as a neglected, dark space without future
(Ki jo je megla prinesla). While Czech literature showed a lack of in
terest in the motif of a village in the 1990s, Czech writers have re
cently started to discover the village as a place distinctly connected
with wild, untamed nature (Bajaja), magic traditions (Tučková), or a
place of half-hidden ideological conflicts stemming from recent past
(Hájíček). The village has gained considerable relevance as a place
of the key ideological conflict between the absolutist bad-will of to
talitarianism and the village community where the latter is one with
the earth, faith, and tradition, and where the totalitarian regime
tries to uproot the village community.
