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The Coat Without Organs : What is the (Filmic) Soldier Schweik Made Of?

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of the intepretional strategies and common motives that are discernible in numerous film adaptations of the Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Schweik. I argue that the figure of Scheik is constructed as emblematic, flat figure, "unconsumed by the plot" (in Eco's terms) - in other words as an superhero.

The second part of the article is focused on suprising analogies between the Hasek's type of narration and the phenomenological method of epoché.