Její pastorkyňa jako venkovský román : transformace pro populární četbu

In 1930, being retold by the author as a novel, G. Preissová's most successful drama Její pastorkyňa(1890) entered the sphere of popular reading. It was at the time when the rural literature enjoyed popularity again owing to the so-called Ruralists, after having been previously shifted out by avant-garde influence to the periphery of literary life. The opera Jenůfa by L. Janáček got on the world's prestigious stages and the original drama was first adapted for the screen already in the silent era (director R. Měšťák, 1929). Now, in competition with the celebrated artistic transformation of the composer Janáček, authors of the film (and continuous productions of her play), the author of the adapted novel chose the easiest way of communication with a perceiver – that is a book. In this epic narrative mode she both extended and simplified the story of the original play and added the happy ending.