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Abstract: Egon Hostovský is known especially as the author of analytical psychological novels from the end of the twenties and thirties. In the time of his emigration (1939-1945 and 1948-1973, mainly in the USA) he had written a number of other prosaic works concentrating on the analysis of psychic condition and experience of an individual. The protagonist of Hostovský's works is always a weaken, in a way distressed individual, the threat being usually presented in one of the side characters. In the first Hostovsky's works that means that the threat is described as an external, actually existing character. In the novels from the thirties the cause of the hero's weakness is found in his soul or subconsciousness and the encounter moves in mind of the central character. In thei third phase of Hostovský's work the protagonist's encounter becomes an obscure figure. In the final phase of Hostovsky's development the geneiral threiat becomes, independent of the particular character. Undefinable threat fills the whole space. From this point of view thei depiction of the world in Hostovský's work may be interpreted as the depiction of the proceeding relativity of values and psychology of human existence. |
