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This article is based on a Hrabal motif from the introduction of his novel Vita nuova (1986), diagonal reading. Unlike most interpretations I argue that this concept need not be bound merely to the motif of the fluency of the text and the absence of punctuation, but also to the motif of the halting of the reading process, which I shall provisionally call a ‘gap’. Comparing Hrabal’s text with passages...
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