Abstract
This paper deals with a hitherto only marginally explored topic - a characterization of the basic tendencies, variants and forms of literary reflection on the pandemic of the covid-19 disease between 2020 and 2022, based on the material of two European literatures (Czech and French, respectively Francophone). After an introductory theoretical overview that recalls some of the more general patterns of cultural (re)mediation of trauma and traumatic memory, the study focuses on an overview analysis of genre, thematic and narrative lines. It describes the production of early collective short story volumes, as well as variants of autobiographical and diary prose, and novels that use the framework of pandemic experience to reflect seriously and subversively on the transpersonal, social or political themes of modern times. In the last section, the article includes a discussion of the relative absence of more aesthetically significant or critically and readerly appreciated " major" literary representations of the pandemic era.
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