Abstrakt
The study focuses on a debut of a Czech woman writer Hana Andronikova (1967-2011) called Zvuk slunečních hodin (2001, modified edition 2008) from point of view of a thematization of the holocaust and India. Although the novel is considered to be a postmodern montage or collage, it is characterized by aiming to unity.
Besides a traditional (love) story India participates in this aiming, too. India becomes a concentrate of various motifs and meanings (sun, myths, narration or mother) which built a relationship to the holocaust and war themes.
India as a sunny exotic land functions as a varied background to show despaired Europe in the time of war. Although individual scenes and motifs are arranged next to each other by almost a film technique there appears a place in the novel where India (exotic) and the holocaust are located in the only one scene, namely in connection to the motif of a death which has undoubtedly another quality in India than in Oświęcim.
