Krátký průvodce dospělého čtenáře po fiktivních událostech
| Title in English | An Adult Reader's Short Guide to Fictional Events |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Citation | NIEDERLE, Rostislav. Krátký průvodce dospělého čtenáře po fiktivních událostech (An Adult Reader's Short Guide to Fictional Events). In Hučko Pašteková, Michaela; Kovalčik, Jozef. Udalosť ako diskontinuita, nastávanie, ruptúra. 1st ed. Bratislava: Slovenská asociácia pre estetiku, 2025, p. 43-50. Udalosť ako diskontinuita, nastávanie, ruptúra. ISBN 978-80-972624-6-4. |
| Description | From the point of view of grammar, "why" is a pronominal adverb; from the point of view of teleology, it is the basic word of philosophy and aesthetics. I realized this recently. In a terminology seminar, I mentioned, with the levity of an old man, that Sophie's choice of William Styron could not be understood by a twelve-year-old reader. To my surprise, a foreign student asked: "Why not?" The King is naked! In that sophisticatedly simple question lies one of the keys to aesthetics: it should offer an explanation of what conditions must be met to understand art. The aim of the following essay is to try to offer and justify the claim that high literature is characterized by descriptions of existential events for whose interpretation we have no standard lexicon of aesthetic terms. |
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