POETICKÉ OBRAZY STAROBY A DETSTVA

Abstract

The phenomena of the old age and childhood are known through projection of intergenerational relation in the family. The subject of interpretation quest in selected texts mainly of social prose for youth is mostly poetical literary image of the relation of a grandparent to the main child character and its variations in the topic. The author follows the way the authorial vision is being transformed into particular original forms and meaning in the texts of Dušan Dušek (The oldest from all sparrows), Peter Holka (A Summer on a waggoner´s horse) and Peter Glocko (I am not afraid of vacations, Robinson and Gramp Millionaire) but also in the context of the other selected authors, whose texts are topically oriented in literary image of the relation between grandparent and his grandchild. The study is not focused on all levels of the epic text, but concentrates on characters and their acting, on the type and language characteristics of the bearers of tradition and teenager.