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

Abstract

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 interpretative 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 synecdoche.

Keywords

• narrative commentary
• 19th century czech literature
• václav beneš třebízský
• narratology