Proč je slunce na obloze samo. Jak vznikl Vladislavův pohádkový svět
Andrea Vítová, Ústav pro českou literaturu Akademie věd ČR
recenzovaný článek
s. 36–57 (obrazová příloha s. 104–108)
licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.63013/la.2023.02
Why the Sun Is Alone on the Horizon: The Genesis of Vladislav’s Fairy-tale World
Abstract:
This article charts Jan Vladislav’s Proč je slunce na obloze samo. Pohádky o tom, jak vznikl svět (Why the sun is alone on the horizon: Fairy tales about the genesis of the world, 2017). It also describes the special features of this collection. The article begins with a discussion of the circumstances surrounding the writing of the manuscript and then its publication in Czechoslovakia in the years of restored hard-line Communist rule after the Soviet-led intervention in 1968. It then focuses on the sources Vladislav drew on for this prose fiction and on the way he works here with the oral tradition. The composition of the volume is based on the idea of a fairy-tale encyclopaedia that explains to the youngest readers the origin of natural phenomena and the characteristics of fauna and flora as they have appeared in the folk tales of various peoples and tribes around the world. For the author, the retelling of folk tales in the form of etiological fairy tales and fables meant that he had to become familiar with traditional genres of literature for children and young people, while preserving the poetic quality in his writing based on folk versions of the stories.
Klíčová slova:
Jan Vladislav; etiologická pohádka; bajka; lidová slovesnost; literatura pro děti a mládež; autorská pohádka; česká literatura 20. století
Keywords:
Jan Vladislav; etiological fairy tale; fable; oral tradition; children’s literature; contemporary fairy tale; twentieth-century Czech literature
Citace:
Vítová, Andrea: Proč je slunce na obloze samo. Jak vznikl Vladislavův pohádkový svět. Literární archiv 55, Jan Vladislav. Ke 100. výročí narození, 2024. Ed. Michal Jareš, s. 36–57; https://doi.org/10.63013/la.2023.02.