Some Reflexions on Jan Čep’s Short Stories in Exile

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Jazyk výsledku

francouzština

Název v původním jazyce

Quelques réflexions autour des nouvelles d’exil de Jan Čep

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Cet article se penche sur les six nouvelles rédigées par l’écrivain tchèque Jan Čep durant son exil en France après 1948. Ces textes sont intéressants à plus d’un titre. Ils présentent tout d’abord un renouveau thématique dans l’œuvre de Čep, dans la mesure où ils s’ancrent dans les événements immédiats, la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l’arrivée au pouvoir du régime communiste, et évoquent une humanité détruite, élargissant le drame existentiel de l’individu à l’ensemble de la communauté humaine. En même temps, les personnages de Čep sont en quelque sorte interpelés par l’histoire, qui les oblige à faire des choix, notamment celui de l’exil, ce qui donne lieu à une nouvelle forme d’angoisse qui se superpose à l’angoisse originelle de l’écrivain. Enfin, ces nouvelles tardives constituent pour Čep une phase de transition entre la création fictionnelle et l’essai

Název v anglickém jazyce

Some Reflexions on Jan Čep’s Short Stories in Exile

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article focuses on the six short stories that the Czech writer Jan Čep wrote during his exile in France, when he fled the new Czechoslovak communist regime after 1948. These texts are as follows: Les Tziganes [The Gypsies], which was written in French and published in the journal Terre humaine in 1952, Tajemství Kláry Bendové[The Secret of Klára Benda], Před zavřenými dveřmi [In Front of the Closed Door], Ostrov Ré [Ré Island], Květnové dni [Days of May], and Tři pocestní [Three Pilgrims]. These short stories are interesting for several reasons. First of all, they present a changing point in Čep’s themes, for they take place during the more recent events – the Second World War and the arrival to power of the communist regime, – and evoke a humanity who has been destroyed. The existential drama of the individual, which had previously been predominant in Čep’s work, is now extended to the entire human community. Fear has separated people from each other, and every genuine personal relation has become impossible. What’s more, language is incapable of bringing together human beings. True communication implies a Contents lists available at Vilnius University PressReceived: 22/09/2021. Accepted: 20/10/2021. Copyright © Samuel Bidaud, 2021. Published by Vilnius University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 9STRAIPSNIAI / Samuel Bidaud. Quelques réflexions autour des nouvelles d’exil de Jan Čepform of silence, in which God can speak to the heart of man, and where the possibility of communion with the others still exists. At the same time, Čep’s characters have to face this recent history, which obliges them to make a choice, in particular as far as exile is concerned. As a consequence, a new form of anguish appears, and is superimposed on Čep’s original one. It gives rise to a feeling of guilt over those who stayed in Czechoslovakia, especially his mother, but also confronts Čep with the inability to write, since he doesn’t manage to find a publisher in France and can no longer write in Czech. As a “pilgrim on the earth”, he endures his suffering and the suffering of the world united to Christ, in communion with Him. Eventually, these later short stories represent a transition for Čep, and reveal that he accepts, as painful as this decision can be, to abandon fiction and to engage in the genre of essay, above all for Radio Free Europe. He will thus manage to give hope to people who suffer behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia, while expressing his intimate concerns in a very personal way.

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J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Literatūra

ISSN

1648-1143

e-ISSN

0258-0802

Svazek periodika

63

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

LT - Litevská republika

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

8-24

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85127739693