Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017
Abstract
This article focuses on three nontraditional works of Czech literature and film production on the Holocaust that use elements of comedy and humor. The article discusses a Czech novel, Life with a Star (Život s hvězdou, written by Jiří Weil, published in 1949); a series of seven short stories, The Menorah (Sedmiramenný svícen, written by Josef Škvorecký, published in 1964); and six different versions of The Shop on Main Street (a short story, a serial, two versions of a screenplay, a novel, and a film) produced by Ladislav Grosman, Ján Kadár, and Elmar Klos (published in 1962, 1964, 1965, and 1998).
It readdresses the place of comedy and humor in artistic representations of the Holocaust.