Gogol a anglický román 18. století – Weil Jiří (2023)

By defending his dissertation Gogol and the English Novel of the 18th Century, Jiří Weil (1900–1959) completed his studies in Slavic philology and comparative literature at Charles University in 1928. The supervisor of the dissertation was Václav Tille, and the opponent was F. X. Šalda. ***** In his dissertation – in line with the proclaimed comparative focus – Weil correlates the development of English novel writing in the 18th century with the development of the works of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. His interpretative methods, the way he works with specific texts, and his high sensitivity to subtle textual nuances reveal the skills that Weil later applied in his reports, in the novels Moscow-border and Wooden Spoon, as well as in his post-war novels. ***** Through detailed and honest contemplation of Gogol's work, Weil prepared the ground for his own artistic creation. Making the text of Weil's dissertation accessible allows for a new perspective on Weil's fictional work. At the same time, some insights and reflections that became part of the dissertation were applied by Weil even before its writing in overview studies on Russian literature, which were published in periodicals and are part of volumes 1, 3, and 8 of the Collected Works. ***** The edition is supplemented with publishing apparatus and indexes. ***** K...