Sborník Prameny víry - pokus o protektorátní aktivistickou literaturu

0523088 - ÚČL 2021 RIV CZ cze J - Journal Article
Šidáková Fialová, Alena
Sborník Prameny víry - pokus o protektorátní aktivistickou literaturu.
[Sources of Faith anthology - an attempt to create Protectorate literature.]
Česká literatura. Roč. 68, č. 1 (2020), s. 40-64. ISSN 0009-0468. E-ISSN 2571-094X
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA18-14478S
Institutional support: RVO:68378068
Keywords : Sources of Faith (Prameny víry) * Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia * activist literature * anti-Semitism * New Europe * Rudolf Novák * Vojtěch Rozner
OECD category: Specific literatures
Method of publishing: Open access
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Studie se zabyvá sborníkem Prameny víry z roku 1943, který vzešel ze soutěže iniciované aktivistickým novinářem Rudolfem Novákem v nakladatelství L. Mazáče. Popisuje jeho vznik, okolnosti vydaní a recepci a analyzuje motivy a témata odkazující k dobové nacistické propagandě.

This study deals with Sources of Faith anthology dating from 1943, which contains fifteen short stories that came out of the top in a competition called New Tomorrow. The aim was to publish texts that were meant to depict life in the Protectorate in the spirit of Nazi propaganda. It was initiated by activist journalist Rudolf Novák, who had been assigned to the Leopold Mazáč publishers by the Nazi authorities in the summer of 1942. The competition was entered primarily by younger authors who had not previously published, or who had only published unsophisticated prose works Of popular fiction. The only fairly well-known contributor was Vojtěch Rozner. Although these stories had literary ambitions, none of them achieved a very high literary standard. This study focuses on the description and interpretation of motifs and subjects of Nazi propaganda which occur more or less implicitly in these texts. Almost omnipresent is the subject of „New Europe” and its construction. These stories often present the motif of children as the builders of the new world. Two texts also include anti-Semitic element characterizing and racially pure Nazi Europe. This construction also involves the subject of workers' labor and social justice: workers are better off in New Europe, they work happily in a comradely collective and their work is valued appropriately. Several stories also attempt to interpret recent events in an activist spirit: the social contradictions of the First Republic, its collapse and the creation of the Protectorate. The issue of what was known as the new Czech patriotism remained vague. While activist journalists and propagandists conceived to be identified with a united Nazi Europe, the authors of the stories under analysis stressed the motif of pragmatic defense of the nation and the longing to see a better future. No competition of this kind has ever been repeated in the following years, so Sources of Faith remains a unique attempt to create a Czech activist literature.
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