Postmodernism and Quasipostmodernism (Michal Viewegh)
| Title in English | Postmodernism and quasipostmodernism (Michal Viewegh) (The 'Case of the Unfaithful Klara' and The 'Pig-in-the-Middle') |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | NEOHELICON |
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| Web | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11059-006-0023-5.pdf |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-006-0023-5 |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Czech prose writer Michal Viewegh |
| Description | The author deals with postmodernism and quasipostmodernism on the material of the works of the contemporary Czech prose writer Michal Viewegh, especially his pseudodetective novellas The Case of the Unfaithful Klara and The Pig in the Middle (which is not the exact translation of the original Czech title Vybíjená), both published in two yearss time (2003-2004) taking into account some of Vieweghs political essays and as well as a wider literary background linked with Czech traditionalists. Viewegh intentionally imitates postmodernist poetics forming a specific kind of quasipostmodernism with the central subject of mans transformation. Vieweghs new men use the language of mass media, advertising, apply various topical hints, their greatest value is not yesterday or tomorrow, but today. Perhaps it is again the Central European environment that produced the signals of both threat and hope just before a new fatal bing bang. |