"Exceptionally Feeble"? The Role of Circumcision in Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/kaa/ojoep/ostrava-journal-vol2-2019-full.pdf" target="_blank" >https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/kaa/ojoep/ostrava-journal-vol2-2019-full.pdf</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Exceptionally Feeble"? The Role of Circumcision in Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night
Original language description
The article analyzes the role of the protagonist’s circumcision, and its discovery by a Fascist woman, in the plot of Thieves in the Night, Arthur Koestler’s fourth novel. While the scene has been criticized for its lack of realism, as well as its lack of “seriousness,” it is argued here that it is realistic both from a historical and from a literary point of view, and it is an incident dramatic enough from a psychological perspective to motivate the protagonist’s radical decision to start a new life on a kibbutz in Mandate Palestine.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_027%2F0008493" target="_blank" >EF16_027/0008493: International Mobilities of Researchers at the TUL</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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