Kako se kalio češki krimić. Umjetnost krimića Jana Cigáneka i "nova" kriminalistička proza 1960-ih

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Title (english): How the Czech crime fiction was tempered? The art of the crime fiction by Jan Cigánek and the “new” crime fiction of the 1960s
• 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)

In the multifaceted and poetically diverse nineteen-sixties in the Czech literature, during which its exile from the official literary communication lasted for almost a decade, the Czech crime fiction gained sway in quality and quantity and two basic models of crime fiction emerged: the pro-western and the socialist novel. The article analyses the book The Art of the Crime Fiction from 1962 by Jan Cigánek, a Marxist critic and literary scholar, as the most significant and consistent contribution to the Czech Marxist criticism’s theoretical definition of the “new” socialist crime fiction model. Particular attention is given to some of the key implications of Cigánek’s thoughts on crime fiction, such as the demand for realism and the more social characterization of the protagonist, or the emphasis on the extrinsic (social) functions that the “new” crime fiction had to perform in a socialist social environment.

• Keywords (english): Czech literature; Jan Cigánek; The Art of the Crime Fiction; socialist crime fiction
• 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. 49, no. 183(1), pp. 51-57
• p-ISSN: 0455-0463
• e-ISSN: 2459-6329
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:563054
• Accepted: 2017-07-05
• Document URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/188604
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2024-04-03 12:12:07