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EGON BONDY AND BOHUMIL HRABAL ON THE WAY TO TOTAL REALISM
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Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) is along with Jaroslav HaВљek and Milan Kundera one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, his works are translated to 27 foreign languages. The present paper pays attention especially to his texts written in the early 1950s when Hrabal started to use his specific narrative style that combines modernist impulses with down-to-earth tall tales inspired by the milieu of Czech pubs. In that time Hrabal was in a close and friendly contact with much younger Egon Bondy, a poet and philosopher of Czech literary underground. The artistic programme of so called Total realism was originally BondyВ‘s idea realised in his poetry. Hrabal used the main ideas of this programme not only in his early short stories, but also in his mature novels and literary letters from the last decade of his life. The author of this paper brings evidence that the influence of Egon Bondy on Bohumil Hrabal was extremely important and should not be overlooked. For both of them the programme of Total realism was a way to avoid modernist experimentation admired by them in the 1940s, and to create really authentic artistic texts not only in the time of fanatical Stalinist propaganda, but also in the following decades.
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