La voce del trauma. Il caso di Petra Soukupová

Abstract

This article deals with the Czech novel Zmizet (Disappearing, 2009) written by the young writer Petra Soukupová (1982) and winner of the prestigious literary prize Magnesia Litera (2010). The novel handles the personal trauma of its characters in their own family context. It is made up of three short stories whose main characters are children. Each story represents an instance of the traumatic event and its implications as possible ways of facing it. This analysis focuses on the main narrative elements used by the writer to express the psychological dimension of characters. It also investigates the language used by the author which successfully leads readers deep into the inner dimension of the novel’s protagonists.