Conventions of Radka Denemarková's Novel Peníze od Hitlera (Money from Hitler) along with its Reception

Abstract

Despite positive response of the novel Peníze od Hitlera, it is not an outstanding work. The construction of the text is full of stereotypes, conventional images and banal metaphors.

There is also a preexisting model of this novel, the play Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Der Besuch der alten Dame.

Keywords

• Radka Denemarková
• Holocaust literature
• Friedrich Dürrenmat
• Czech-German relations