The literary poetics of Mexican writer Juan José Arreola (1918–2001), one of the great figures of 20th century Latin American narrative, rests on three pillars: his inscription in a specific literary tradition, an authorial position as a “cultural megaphone” and his preference for fantastic literature. Within that literary tradition, for Arreola Kafka, perhaps like no other author, provides a possible literary lens to examine in depth the human being of our time. The purpose of this paper is to traverse this Arreola-Kafka literary bridge and to read some edges of the Kafkaesque in Arreola’s work, paying special attention to the possible communicating vessels between the two literary projects.
This study re-examines the existing scholarship on Josef Holeček’s seminal multi-volume novel Naši. In the first part, it considers various approaches to Naši over the course of more than a century of literary scholarship on Holeček’s work. In this context, it also seeks to clarify and correct interpretations of its protagonist, the peasant Kojan, thus revealing productive antinomies that effectively disrupt the predominately monumentalizing conceptions that have characterized this scholarship to date. Finally, it considers Holeček’s Naši within the scope of various literary -isms and traditions, drawing from the new pluralistic model of poetics for the Czech prose on which this study is based.
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