Rzeczy, które mówią. O zmysłowej konkretności w prozie Jarmili Glazarowej

Jarmila Glazarová, one of the most representative Czech femine prosaists from the interwar period, connected by experts with the psychological trend in prose, belongs to acircle of writers who try to search anew ways of understanding and reconstructing human identity. According to the realistic (but modified) tradition she emphasizes the role of the material aspects of the world which give people the sense of living and opportunity of integration with reality and — on the other hand — define their cognitive and evaluative possibilities. In the novels Vlčí jáma (1938) and in autobiographical work Roky vkruhu (1936) things, through their material, sensual features, lose their semantic neutrality and become the metaphorical equivalent of the heroes’ soul. These things acquire the status of cognitive instruments which allow people to confirm their position in quotidian life that is the most important value in Glazarová’s concept of human individual and collective existence.