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Oblicza autokracji w czeskich dystopiach literackich (na wybranych przykładach)

2018

The paper deals with the phenomenon of dystopia in Czech literaturę before 1989. The main aim of the article is to present some similiar views on totalitarian power and its influence on the individual in Czech novels and short stories: Datum narozeni nula by Ludmiła Freiova, Poselstvi pro Agla Mathona by Ondrej Neff, Utopie, nejlepśi verze by lvan Kminek and Maso by Martin Harmcek. The purpose of the paper was also to show how in the authors’ visions of autocratic States, administration is taking control over ordinary people and what kind of tools it uses to manipulate them: terror, self-censorship or various addictions.