Syllabus
1. Vladislav Vančura, 1938: May crisis, literature and defense.2. Milada Součková, 1939: Literary diary as an attempt to document the beginnings of the Protectorate.3. Milada Součková, 1943/1962: Big and little histories.4. Karel Pecka, 1975-1978, and Václav Kaplický, 1963: Spiritual emphases in the retrospective of the 1950s.5. Václav Kaplický, 1963: Velké Losiny as an image of the era; Karel Michal, 1968: Thirty Years' War, Prague Spring, and the fading of ideals.6. Josef Jedlička, 1991: Rehabilitation of the concept of memory.7. Jáchym Topol, 2001 and 2005: Prague Spring and the August Invasion from a child's perspective.8. Zuzana Holasová, 2019: The socialist era and the fight with a dragon.9. Lenka Lagronová, 2016: Emblematic figures of Czech history: St. Wenceslas, Božena Němcová.10. Kateřina Tučková, 2022: The use of historical material in the novel.
Annotation
This course focuses on Czech and Czechoslovak literature of the last ten decades, which includes various genres such as prose, poetry, and drama. We examine how Czech history influences and inspires literature, and how literature in turn influences social and political events.
The class includes a seminar component where specific texts are interpreted together and an online exhibition is created in the Exhibition Indihu environment. The course content is regularly renewed and it is possible to enroll repeatedly..