Title: The representation of the Operation Anthropoid in selected works
Variant title:
- Prezentace operace Antropoid ve vybraných dílech
Source document: Slavica litteraria. 2020, vol. 23, iss. 2, pp. 111-126
Extent
111-126
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ISSN1212-1509 (print)2336-4491 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/SL2020-2-8
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/143365
Type: Article
Language
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
The Operation Anthropoid, carried out by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, has become a recurrent theme in literature and popular culture. Using Laurent Binet's HHhH, its movie adaptation The Man with the Iron Heart, the movie Anthropoid, Leopold Lahola's play Assassination (Atentát) as well as Howard Linskey's Hunting the Hangman, this article focuses on the representation of the Operation in historical fiction while analyzing various concepts such as fear, cruelty, brotherhood, conscience and guilt to better understand what do both Heydrich and the assassins symbolize. Therefore, the symbolic aspect of an assassination, emphasizing both the roles and the national identities of the assassins and of Heydrich himself as well as its fictionalization using different tools will be investigated along with the narration and the conceptualization of a socio-political event. Finally, this paper will try to understand the process of recreating a past incident and see its connection with the present.
Operace Antropoid, provedená Janem Kubišem a Jozefem Gabčíkem, se stala znovu se vracejícím motivem v literatuře a populární kultuře. Studie, která analyzuje knihu Laurenta Bineta HHhH, jeho filmovou adaptaci Smrtihlav (The Man with the Iron Heart), film Anthropoid, hru Atentát od Leopolda Laholy, stejně tak knihu Howarda Linskeyho Hunting the Hangman (Honba za katem), se zaměřuje na prezentaci této události v historické próze. V souvislosti s tím zároveň hodnotí různá pojetí lidského chování jako strach, krutost, bratrství, svědomí, vina, aby bylo lépe porozuměno tomu, co Heydrich a atentátníci symbolizují. Studie proto zkoumá i symbolický aspekt atentátu akcentující jak úlohu národní identity atentátníků a samotného Heydricha, tak i beletrizaci, v níž se užívá různých nástrojů spolu s vyprávěním a konceptualizací této společensko-politické události. Nakonec si toto pojednání klade za cíl prostřednictvím umělecké rekonstrukce porozumět této události z pohledu současnosti.
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[6] JARVIS, Brian: Monsters Inc.: Serial Killers and Consumer Culture. Crime Media Culture 3, 3: 2007, p. 326–344. | DOI 10.1177/1741659007082469
[7] JIMENEZ, Cédric – BINET, Laurent [et al.]: The Man with the Iron Heart. Lionsgate Home Entertainment, DVD, 2017.
[8] LAHOLA, Leopold: Assassination. Eds. Vladimír Štefko – Slugeňová Cockrell, Katarína. Golden Collection of the Slovak Drama of the 20th Century (1900-1948). Bratislava: Divadelný ústav, 2016.
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[13] MARTIN, Keith: Vault of the Vampire (Fighting Fantasy # 38). London: Puffin Books, 1989.
[14] MARTIN, Keith: Revenge of the Vampire (Fighting Fantasy # 58). London: Puffin Books, 1995.
[15] MCLENNON, Leigh M.: 'The Red Thirst is on this Nation': Vampiric Hauntings and the American Civil War. In War Gothic in Literature and Culture, ed. by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet – Steffen Hantke. New York: Routledge, 2016, p. 3–21.
[16] PIERSON, Frank – LORING, Mandel: Conspiracy. Video Film Express, DVD, 2001.
[17] TEICH, Mikuláš – KOVÁČ, Dušan – BROWN, Martin D. (eds.): Slovakia in History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
[18] VIEWEG, W. – VICTOR, R. – DEMETRIOS, A. Julius [et al.]: "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Clinical Features, Pathophysiology, and Treatment". The American Journal of Medicine 119, 5, 2006, p. 383–390.
[19] WILLOUGHBY, Ian: Last Days: The Heroes of Operation Anthropoid at Prague's Cyril and Methodius Church. Radio Prague International, 2017. https://www.radio.cz/en/section/czech-history/last-days-the-heroes-of-operation-anthropoid-at-pragues-cyril-and-methodius-church. Accessed May 16, 2020.
[20] 8 Villain Archetypes: How to Write Different Types of Villains. MasterClass, 2020. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-different-types-of-villains#8-villain-archetypes. Accessed May 17, 2020.