The paper try to identify the ways, how choosen czech
beletristic books speak about different ways of understanding
to values, life-styles or ways to behaving of adolescents and
parent’s generations in the time before and after the
rovolution in the end of 1980’s and the beginning of 1990’s.
The main question is about level of representation of
generation’s breakage in chosen beletristic literature.
From this perspective, the paper analyze the belteristic works
by Irena Dousková, Jan Balabán, Tereza Brdečková, Edgar Dutka,
Jiří Hájíček and Petry Hůlová. The representation of
generation’s breakage is situated to the context of classical
and modern sociology of generations (Mannheim, Gasset, Corsten,
Giesen, etc.). It is important to show the relationship between
the dramatic historical experience and daily-based experience
and behavior, also the subjects of investigation are the areas
of experience and behavior, in which the differences among
generations are articulated (the family, the job, the
education, the entertaining, the language, the religion, etc.)
The objective of this paper is not to evaluate preciseness of
literature description based on some “scientific” information.
More to the contrary the literature represent a picture of our
experiences as the social agents, that means that this
experience can not be evaluate as good - bad or correct –
incorrect. As a part of this paper is also question of
relationship of belletristic literature and sociology, however
this is not the main point of the interest.