Naracija u službi zamagljivanja: Zgoda policijskog prefekta Ladislava Fuksa

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Title (english): Narration as blurring: The Tale of a Police Prefect by Ladislav Fuks
• Author: Matija Ivačić; MBZ: 312552
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of West Slavic languages and literatures)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Slavic Studies

Abstract (english)

The novel The Tale of a Police Prefect (1971) by the Czech writer Ladislav Fuks takes over all the constitutive components of the crime genre, although lit-erary scholars and critics agree that Fuks did not write a crime novel in the strict sense of the word. Moreover, in The Tale of a Police Prefect we witness its erosion, the main cause of which could be attributed to the process of blurring of meaning. The focus of this essay is on the ways in which this is realised. Narratological analysis of selected examples from the novel seeks to show that blurring is achieved by targeted changes in different types of focalisation and frequent paralipses, which grow into narrative strategies due to their frequency.

• Keywords (english): Ladislav Fuks; The Tale of a Police Prefect; blurring of meaning; focalisation; paralipsis
• Language: croatian
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - domestic
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Književna smotra : Časopis za svjetsku književnost
• Numbering: vol. 52, no. 198(4), pp. 75-82
• p-ISSN: 0455-0463
• e-ISSN: 2459-6329
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:998112
• Accepted: 2020-12-04
• Document URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/249460
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2024-04-02 17:50:08