I served the King of England

 

 

-         story of a „small man“, „antihero“, „timidity“

-         history of the traumatic developments of the 20th century in Czechoslovakia – a metaphor for  the human condition

-         issue of morality; issue of sycophancy, issue of integration

-         grotesqueness – to signify alienation

-         changing structures of „large history“ signify that the world is not a place fit for living

-         renuncation of the world = > taoism

-         stylistic features : „hurling himself into intensity“, oral aspects, attention to „charismatic events“. peculiarisation. Technique of collage, juxtaposition of incongurous images. Tweeness of the „old world“.