The Czech literature and its international context : (on the czech edition of Hana Voisine-Jechová's History of Czech literature)

The author analyses the History of Czech Literature written by the French slavist of Czech origin who interprets the course of development of Czech literature in its widest European sense as a result of specific features of a Czech nation and its culture under the strong political and cultural impact of neighbouring nations and states. The development of Czech literature is seen in fatal antinomic and complementary pairs (Czech - German, Czech - Slavonic, Czech - Polish, Czech - Hungarian, Czech - Slovak, Czech - Russian). The kernel of the researcher's conception lies in the Middle Ages and the following stages of development, i.e. Renaissance, humanism, and baroque. Her conception of literature is linked to that of other arts and culture in general. The multicultural approach as well as the importance of religious and philosophical plurality of this cultural space, Czech literature observed from outside and, at the same time, from the intrinsic point of view makes this work both a complete brilliant monograph standing between the personalistic and poetological history of literature and a challenge to the formation of a complex history of Czech literature conceived for future generations.