Zmierzch jako początek przebudzenia. O motywach inicjacyjnych w literaturze czeskiej pierwszej połowy XX wieku na podstawie prozy Vítězslava Nezvala

The article presents an analysis of Vitezslav Nezvala’s mini-novel Valerie and her week of miracles in which the author refers to the motif of initiation in terms of psychology and the theory of archetypes. Furthermore, the presented paper deals with the issues of experimenting with the convention of Gothic novel, grotesque, parody and horror. By analyzing the successive stages of the main character’s initiation, the author points out some literary devices that let the mini-novel become a part of the Czech avant-garde movement of the interwar period.