Tragický úděl jednotlivce v dějinách. Osud Dmitrije Šostakoviče v románovém zpracování Juliana Barnese
The Tragic Destiny of an Individual in History
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ISSN: 2336-6729
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2018Publisher
Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaSource
Svět literatury: Časopis pro novodobé literatury, 2018, 57, 68-73Source URL
https://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.czKeywords (Czech)
Romány, historické romány, Julian Barnes
Keywords (English)
Novels, historical novels, Julian Barnes
The article focuses on the penultimate novel of Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, and attempts to interpret it within the larger context of the author’s work. The author of the article argues that this novel
is by no means a deviation from Barnes’s course, set out in the previous novels, but rather a continuation
of topics he examined. The genre of a historical novel allows him to play out the drama of individual
versus death on a larger scale, represented by history. For this purpose, Barnes misreads the
life story of Dmitri Shostakovich, whom he portrays as an individual fighting the repressive system
by “internal emigration” and obsession with his own work.