PRAGUE After November 1989, only a few books were expected to be as impatient as Alena Morntajnov’s new novel (1963). No wonder: her novelty November, which comes under the banner of the Brno Guest, generally has all the qualities that are guaranteed to make a bestseller, both at home and without a doubt for the flight and in the cold.
A clear pbhov line, saturated with dynamically developed dj. ikovn, even an ideally conducted authorial dance among those of high literature and popular melodrama. In the main role of women, respectively different types of women. A asoprostorov scenery this time aktulnj, for the average user lpe tangibly not tict and edest lta v They have (2017) or djiny bezmla cel republiky as in Tichch rocch (2019): the last three decades, that is, the past of the ninth, near, own and dreamy urgency. For?
Protoe November is a level of dystopia, prose lessons from counterfactual djin, fiction studies on the darkness of what if. What would happen if, on November 17, 1989, it took on a different direction, a different energy, at the National Theater in Prague. If the corpse normalization in the whirlwind was sharply bombed, it took a new breath and brutally took on all those who retaliated against its births Husk, Jake, trougal & spol. protest in any way: and by word or body.
Alena Morntajnov – October
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Right in front of the mirror
The start of pbhu is sharp. Morntajnov takes into play the methods of early Stalinism, ie the turn of the thirties and fifties, not normalization, when theatrical men and treacherous, disgusting thorns of whole families and to the knee cleared the field of coercive practices with the human TV, as throwing off bikes buzzing due to long hair growth, oacen, fading cult and the like. The main heroineNovemberit will fall to the bottom itself.
From day to day, Mary is a former hunter. For a subverted socialist republic he spends twenty years, a manel modeled on Orwell 1984 vaporizovn, and had a daughter ocejchovna as a child, his parents desperately failed to raise. And so they gave up the offspring and left behind for the personal development of the state. Respectively, in a small way, it is represented by a sanatorium, a variant of a children’s home, where young trees are flexible, as the forest grows. dn reality, just delusion. Zero truth and a thousand percent ideologically blown fiction. Vesel forbna in front of the curtain and disgusting terror in the scenes.
The biggest thing about that story from the confusion is how close it is to reality. The other author in the prologue sinisterly states that everything that is written here once happened somewhere and still happens somewhere in the world. Not only the summer in Russia or Germany, not only in the fifty years in Czechoslovakia, but also the present in North Korea, in Russia again in all those weak, exhausted or even collapsed states with a moderate medium mentality, which then materialized the feeling of inferiority in general. , disguised as a sovereign scientist, who each in front of the mirror reveals his exquisite features.
Morntajnov, after all, works fully with God in his second or fifth place. The main heroine’s name is Marie, named Josef, their daughter Magdalena; the text often illuminates motifs such as holy, boiling or oak like a tree that lives two thousand years. Tm vm je pbhov linka nalhavj, neodbytnj; tm sp mv pbhu to tangible, everyday evil, their extraordinary counterparts, or at least superfluous, but not so good. Similar to v They have a Tichch rocch is also in November despite all the brutality of fines tn; a long tragedy that drags on passivity and patience, std on activity, on an active, new life.
A fairy tale in the dark
Romnov’s pbh is intertwined from two lines: in the first, the mother is married, and in the second, the daughter in the sanatorium. The first is a criminal and the second is shaped so that she will never have the crime committed by her mother, nor mistaken. Scenes from life one and the other blend, contrast and laugh to be alienated.Novemberit is not only a dystopian, counterfactual, but also a story about the perversion, loss and re-establishment of the relationship between parents and children, between mother and daughter. During the infinite state, about the deep, seemingly insurmountable first time, and even the space itself.
The sweat that Marie comes out of crime after fifteen years is the delegate, again according to Gottwald’s not Husk’s pattern, to the border to merge with the working people in the village. It merges, but at the same time starts its new personal growth. And even though the finle of her life is tragic, Marie has definitely not lost her mind.
Alena Morntajnov
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While the last two Alena Morntajnov had miles to the past, November goes for the future, more precisely for what could be. Another developmental movement then leads the text from the general to the concrete. From the interface of other situations to personality units, then variables. If, in spite of her cruel punishment, Mary kept her humanity throughout her life, then Magdalena quickly lost this category from her childhood. He also has to fight for her. And it goes symbolically from the point of view: the author left her a handful of books for children, one of them a title Fairy tales in the dark. And in that, as is well known, be all subconscious of fantasy, expressed in desire and guilt; from here all the pbhy to the world are to blame, and the fairy tales, or the reln.
After the previous ones Tichch rocch, mon pli roztaench in time, pelidnchch and guided dog pli generac, wrote Morntajnov pbh, which is clear, concentrated: clean and clear. Pbh, which is ultimately strongly appealing. And don’t just go for a natural bond between family and child, for a safe family, who has established personal security, or a breakdown of insecurity, feelings of patience and guilt. Call for that essential, for human freedom. For the first time on uniqueness, one’s own life, in it the word nature becomes different. Pdnm inem.
Alena Morntajnov: OctoberGuest, Brno 2021, 300 pages, selling price 369 K. – |
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