Course topics: In the seminar students read fictional texts of individual national literatures from the 20th and 21st century (beyond the literature the students encountered in high school). The aim of the subject is to broaden their horizons about world literature, i.e. about individual national literatures (in the present syllabus, Austrian, Portuguese, French, Italian, Canadian and Czech literature), through a selection of representative authors and works. The structure of the selected authors and works takes into account the various (sub)genres as well as the practical aspect (the scope of the work), so that students can read them from week to week and discuss them in class. The subject syllabus as well as the recommended readings depend on the works selected for interpretation. Outline proposal: The psychological short story ( on the example of Ingeborg Bachmann: short stories The Barking and Everything) An Intellectual Short Story (Fernando Pessoa: The Anarchist Banker) Philosophical-erotic short story (Milan Kundera: Laughable Loves) Experimental short story - a labyrinth of possibilities / Oulipo group (Georges Perec: The Art of Asking Your Boss For a Raise) Fantastic-historical novel/magical realism (Italo Calvino: The Baron in the Trees) Neorealism / autobiographical novel, colonialism (Marguerite Duras: The Lover) A political-dystopian novel (Michel Houellebecq: Submission) The concept of an unreliable narrator? (Ladislav Fuks: The Cremator) Ecological science fiction (dystopia) / literature of the cultural underground (Egon Bondy: The Invalid Siblings) A subversive social-critical novel (Thomas Bernhard: Old Masters) Feminist short story (Alice Munro)

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Supervisors and educators:
prof. PaedDr. René Bílik, CSc. - Zabezpečuje, Hlavný garant
Mgr. Tamara Janecová, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Cvičiaci, Kogarant, Skúšajúci, Prednášajúci
doc. PaedDr. Milan Pokorný, PhD. - Kogarant
Dr. theol. Kristína Pavlovičová, PhD. - Kogarant, Cvičiaci, Prednášajúci, Skúšajúci, Zodpovedný za elearning
prof. PhDr. Juraj Hladký, PhD. - Kogarant
doc. PaedDr. Andrej Závodný, PhD. - Kogarant, Zodpovedný za elearning

Code: XSJB020

Period: ZS

Credits: 3