Slavistické reminiscence: výbor z textů Jiřího Fraňka (Slavonic Reminiscences. Selected Texts by Jiri Franek)

Beschreibung

The anthology presents essays of a renowned Russian studies scholar Jiří Franěk (1922–2007), Professor at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. A scholarly foreword is written by Danuše Kšicová and is enhanced by her personal recollections. The volume contains thirteen essays mostly on Russian literature – from the Igor's Tale, Franěk’ favorite subject, to works on older and newer Russian classics (such as Gogol, Babel, Paustovsky, Sholokhov and Solzhenitsyn). The compilers also included his texts dedicated to the theory of translation and to works of his teacher Bohumil Mathesius and of Emanual Frynta. The latter was one of the most talented translators after the WW II. They did not omit his interesting treatises on Czech Judaica, a subject that was for Franěk throughout his life very important. The collection contains his personal bibliography of 537 references.