Dvojí skutečnost u Jana Weisse

• Main Author: Magulová, Naďa
• Other Authors: Mravcová, Marie
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-273210

The aim of this thesis is to capture the representation of two realities in the works of Jan Weiss. Weiss' conception of reality oscillates between interrelated fantasy and reality approach and is based on his personal, unusually intensive experience with dream (He experienced dream visions during his typhus fevers in a prisoner camp in Siberia). The first part of this thesis focuses on Weiss' works from 1920s and 1930s. The original theme of dream and dual reality is expressed by the key motive of the mirror and the motive of the double; taking this as his starting point, the author further develops the question of other polarities (evil and good, consciousness and subconsciousness, dreams and reality, the ordinary and the extraordinary) and their relations. Inspired by sickly dreams and the author's WWI experience, the fantastic world of Weiss' writings shows signs of extreme abnormality, mainly time-spatial discontinuity; his early works can be related to expressionism. Dream often verges on hallucinations and madness. Another theme appearing in Weiss' works is that of darkness and blindness, which stands not only for the mysterious territory between the waking hours and sleep, but also for Weiss' moral doubts. The second part of this thesis focuses on genre schemes and types that can be found in Weiss'...