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Abstract: The 20th century ideologies, together with the transformations of the constitutional and social orders of the Central Europe, count among the major topics of contemporary Czech prose. The concept of collective memory, that preserves these elements of the past, is being uncovered both on the material and non-material planes. One of the ways of its representation in literary works is the use of toponyms of predominantly commemorative character. Therefore, in a fictional world, the names of places become an essential motif reflecting the ideological influence of the political power of the time. The paper focuses on the place names the contemporary prose works contain and on the way they are involved in constructing a literary picture of the history of the 20th century. Attention is paid to the artistic representation of the ideologically motivated changes of toponyms and non-standardized toponymy as an element of identity or humor defying political power; furthermore, the particularities of linguistically diverse areas, especially in relation to German and Polish language, are considered. From the methodological point of view, the study is based, besides others, on the concept of abused memory (abus de mémoire) by the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, which is clearly evident in the literary motif of the ideological transformations of toponyms. |
