Nová divočina a kompost : příběhová hmota v současné české literatuře

The study explores the reflection of material ecocriticism and the concept of the new wilderness in contemporary Czech literature, specifically in Flora (2024) by Jonáš Zbořil and Vypravěč (2022) by Anna Bolavá. Drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of fourth-wave ecocriticism (storied matter, the agency of matter), intra-action (Karen Barad) and sympoiesis (Donna Haraway), the study analyses how both works thematise the complex intersections of the human and the nonhuman, the natural and the cultural, the animate and the inanimate. Particular attention is paid to the agency of nonhuman entities, the motifs of new life forms emerging from the intersection of the natural and man-made environments (Flora), and the metaphorical and material significance of compost as a site that preserves and transforms the past, memories, and guilt (The Narrator).