Prezentace operace Antropoid ve vybraných dílech

Büke Sağlam

doi:10.5817/SL2020-2-8

The representation of the Operation Anthropoid in selected works

Vol.23,No.2(2020)

Büke Sağlam

https://doi.org/10.5817/SL2020-2-8

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/143365

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Abstract

The Operation Anthropoid, carried out by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, has become a recurrent theme in literature and popular culture. Using Laurent Binet's HHhH, its movie adaptation The Man with the Iron Heart, the movie Anthropoid, Leopold Lahola's play Assassination (Atentát) as well as Howard Linskey's Hunting the Hangman, this article focuses on the representation of the Operation in historical fiction while analyzing various concepts such as fear, cruelty, brotherhood, conscience and guilt to better understand what do both Heydrich and the assassins symbolize. Therefore, the symbolic aspect of an assassination, emphasizing both the roles and the national identities of the assassins and of Heydrich himself as well as its fictionalization using different tools will be investigated along with the narration and the conceptualization of a socio-political event. Finally, this paper will try to understand the process of recreating a past incident and see its connection with the present.

Keywords:
historical fiction; Operation Anthropoid; Czechoslovak identity; Laurent Binet; Leopold Lahola; Howard Linskey

Pages:
111–126

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