The image of the Camorra in contemporary Neapolitan prose The Camorra or "the System", as lots of residents of Naples call it, is a criminal organization that has intensified its activities since the 1980s and today it affects all aspects of lives of people living in Campania. This thesis focuses on the impact of the Camorra on lives and work of contemporary Neapolitan writers, or more precisely, it describes the way the theme of the Neapolitan mafia is represented in their books. The authors of the analyzed texts are Peppe Lanzetta, Giuseppe Ferrandino, Andrej Longo, Giuseppe Montesano, Simone Di Meo, Roberto Saviano and Valeria Parrella. For the purpose of this thesis, we have chosen the works that are interesting in terms of genre adaptation of the topic and in terms of the characteristics of the main characters of each story. Following the behaviour of the main characters, we observe the direct impact of the Camorra on life in Naples and its influence on the mentality of its inhabitants. We aim to define the conditions under which the people ruled by the Camorra are forced to live and at the same time, we analyze how they face up to this destiny: whether they persist and hope for change or resign and leave their hometown to try their luck elsewhere, mostly in northern Italy. Addressing each...

Esta tese analisa quatro livros publicados entre 2000 e 2001, quando foi lançado um grande número de livros escritos por homens encarcerados: Diário de um detento, de Jocenir, Sobrevivente André du Rap (do Massacre do Carandiru), de André du Rap e Bruno Zeni, Memórias de um sobrevivente, de Luiz Alberto Mendes, e Vidas do Carandiru, de Humberto Rodrigues. Sustento que a disposição material desses livros e o modo como a matéria narrativa é enformada sejam indícios de que as narrativas do cárcere brasileiro tragam as marcas dos modos de sociabilidade daquele ambiente, em que se reconhece a condição de preso, mas se almeja o estatuto de escritor. / This work analyses four books published between 2000 and 2001, when there was a boom of prisoners narratives: Diário de um detento, by Jocenir, Sobrevivente André du Rap (do Massacre do Carandiru), by André du Rap and Bruno Zeni, Memórias de um sobrevivente, by Luiz Alberto Mendes, and Vidas do Carandiru, by Humberto Rodrigues. I argue that the material disposition of these books and the way the narrative substance is constructed are signs that the narratives from Brazilian prisons carry marks of the sociability of that environment, in which one acknowledges the condition of prisoner, but also aims at a writer status.

Esta tese analisa quatro livros publicados entre 2000 e 2001, quando foi lançado um grande número de livros escritos por homens encarcerados: Diário de um detento, de Jocenir, Sobrevivente André du Rap (do Massacre do Carandiru), de André du Rap e Bruno Zeni, Memórias de um sobrevivente, de Luiz Alberto Mendes, e Vidas do Carandiru, de Humberto Rodrigues. Sustento que a disposição material desses livros e o modo como a matéria narrativa é enformada sejam indícios de que as narrativas do cárcere brasileiro tragam as marcas dos modos de sociabilidade daquele ambiente, em que se reconhece a condição de preso, mas se almeja o estatuto de escritor. / This work analyses four books published between 2000 and 2001, when there was a boom of prisoners narratives: Diário de um detento, by Jocenir, Sobrevivente André du Rap (do Massacre do Carandiru), by André du Rap and Bruno Zeni, Memórias de um sobrevivente, by Luiz Alberto Mendes, and Vidas do Carandiru, by Humberto Rodrigues. I argue that the material disposition of these books and the way the narrative substance is constructed are signs that the narratives from Brazilian prisons carry marks of the sociability of that environment, in which one acknowledges the condition of prisoner, but also aims at a writer status.

Tato diplomová práce zmapuje románovou tvorbu současného italského spisovatele Alessandra Baricca. Úvodem bude představen autor v kontextu současné italské prózy. V další části práce nastíníme charakteristiku postmoderního románu, zejména pokud jde o tříštění či dekompozici prostoru, času, příběhu a s tím související žánrovou heterogennost textu. V centrální části práce rozebereme jednotlivá díla, přičemž se budeme soustředit jak na příběh, jeho hlavní motivy a témata, tak na jeho kompozici a strukturu. Ve čtvrté kapitole využijeme dílčích analýz jako východiska ke komparativnímu přístupu k textům a pokusíme se najít společné i odlišné konstrukční principy jejich výstavby a návratná témata či motivické konstanty Bariccových próz. Závěrem zhodnotíme přínos tvorby Alessandra Baricca pro současnou italskou prózu.