Moderní a postmoderní román, podzim 2014

                                                                   John Fowles: Francouzova milenka

                                                                                   Zuzana Fonioková



                                      John Fowles (1926-2005)


-          The Collector, Sběratel (1963)

-          The Magus, Mág (1966)

-          Daniel Martin (1977)

-          Mantissa (1982)

-          A Maggot, Larva (1985)


                    The French Lieutenant’s Woman – Francouzova milenka (1969)


-          Charles, Ernestina, Sarah


1.      Viktoriánství vs. současnost

-          konfrontace času příběhu (1867) s časem vyprávění (1967)

-          typizace postav


2.     Vypravěč a postmodernismus

-          styl

-          vypravěč jako Bůh

-          rozbití realistické iluze, zcizovací efekt

-          falešný konec

-          “destabilized ontology” (McHale 197)

-          dvojí konec

-          “An ‘impresario’ [...] then turns his watch back and palimpsestically writes the second
ending over the first, interleaving the two with shared text and dialogue. The terms of this
anomaly dictate that we are to understand that time has folded back upon itself and that two
contradictory realities occupy the same time and space.” (Tarbox 100)

-          Historiografická metafikce: “its theoretical self-awareness of history and fiction as
human constructs (historiographic metafiction) is made the grounds for its rethinking and reworking
of the forms and contents of the past” (Hutcheon 5)


3.     Tématika

-          “Existentialism is the revolt of the individual against all those systems of thought,
theories of psychology, and social and political pressures that attempt to rob them of his
individuality.” (Fowles, The Aristos)


-          Ernestina x Sarah

-          Konvence x autentičnost

-          Povinnost x svoboda

-          Viktoriánský x moderní

-          Náboženství x věda

-          Třídní rozdělení společnosti


4.     Film (1981)

Režie Karel Reisz

Scénář Harold Pinter


                                           Bibliografie

Fowles, John. Francouzova milenka. Přel. Hana Žantovská. Praha: Volvox Globator, 2003.

---. The Aristos. New York: Little Brown, 1964.

Hutcheon Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1988.

McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction. New York: Methuen, 1987.

Stevenson, William. Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman. London: Continuum, 2007.

Tarbox, Katherine. “The French Lieutenant’s Woman and the Evolution of Narrative.” Twentieth
Century Literature 42.1, John Fowles Issue (1996): 88-102.

White, Hayden. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore:
John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1973.