Vypravěčský komentář u Václava Beneše Třebízského. Sonda do autorské strategie české literatury konce 19. století

Abstract

A Narrative Commentary by Václav Beneš Třebízský: Probing Authorial Strategies in Czech Literature of the Late 19th Century This study deals with the form and function of narrative commentary in Czech prose works of the period 1830–1880, with a focus on V. B. Třebízský’s novel Wandering Souls , in which the commentary material is particularly rich and diverse. What this analysis makes possible, first, is a number of in-terpretative insights into Třebízský’s work and a mapping of some of his most common narrative figures. Second, it allows us to generalize the form and function of narrative commentary in the broader literary period under consideration, for which Wandering Souls provides a workable syn-ecdoche.