Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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MYTH AS A CODE OF NATIONAL ASPECT (of Jozef Gregor Tajovsky: 'Nas Jezisko')

M. Mikulova

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 1 > 25-33

The short story 'Nas Jezisko' (Our Baby Jesus) belongs to the Tajovsky's thematic cycle focused on ethnology and collecting of folk artefacts. The short story 'Nas Jezisko' (1918) was written by Tajovsky as a legionary at the end of WWI . It is a lyrical reminiscence, accompanying us through times and periods, when a narrator as a child experiences amazing impressions from the Christmas Holy Mass,...

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A POET OF THE END

P. Zajac

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 1 > 3-13

The turn between the 19th and the 20th centuries becomes a crucial point of the Slovak literature of the 20th century. It is a meeting point and a point of confrontation of two generations and two different poetics. This confrontation has been reflected in the literary historiography as a polemic between Parnassism and Realism with Modernism - just coming into the world. The comparison of Hviezdoslav's...

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RIDER'S LEGEND IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF VAMOS'S PROSE WORK

V. Barborik

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 1 > 34-41

The novelette of a Slovak writer Gejza Vámos 'Jazdecká legenda' (Legend on Riding) was published in 1932. Both contemporary critics as well as the historians of literature evaluated the book as a non problematic, relaxing intermezzo: from the aspect of editing sequence the author's work 'Jazdecká legenda' was published between two most important works of the author - novels 'Atomy Boha' (The Atoms...

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AN ATTEMPT AT A LIFE ALTERNATIVE: PRICE FOR SECULARISATION (Dusan Kuzel: 'Lampa')

V. Barborik

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 2 > 104-117

The study deals with a novel of a Slovak prose writer Dusan Kuzel (1940 - 1985), called 'Lampa' (A Lamp). This work was written in the first half of the 70th but it was published only in 1991. The novel belongs to the many texts at the turn of 60th and 70th, which could not be published in the political and cultural regime after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. It represents a structural,...

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A JOURNEY TO 'A MAGIC OF UNWANTED' (Peter Pistanek: 'Mlady Donc')

R. Bilik

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 2 > 118-133

The study reflects one of the representative works of Slovak literary situation at the turn of 80th and 90th of the 20th c. The analysis and interpretation of the prose collection 'Mlady Donc (Young Donc) confirms that a new generation of thirty-years old authors is coming on the scene (Taragel, Pistanek, Otcenás) with their creative gesture which means a destruction of important levels of Slovak...

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'TO WRITE A TREMENDOUSLY BEAUTIFUL SENTENCE' (Rudolf Sloboda: 'Uhorsky rok')

Z. Pruskova

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 2 > 95-103

The study is at attempt of a rereading and interpretation of the book 'Uhorsky rok' (Hungarian Year) written by Rudolf Sloboda with regard to its temporal and over temporal ideological, generic, stylistic uniqueness. As a context for the interpretation we consider a transparent connection of the book with the influences of surrealism, represented by the Latréamont's literary message as an aspiration...

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PROBES AND MORALITIES (Ján Johanides: 'Sukromie')

P. Matejovic

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 2 > 81-94

The study 'Probes and Moralities' is an interpretation of the collection of novelettes called 'Sukromie' (The Privacy) written by Johanides. It was published in 1963. The same way as the novel 'Narcis' (Narcissus) written by Sloboda it belongs to the most discussed books in the 60th. The book of Johanides became in the scene of contemporary relations (political changes after 1956, giving up of the...

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EDGAR ALLAN POE AND A DETECTIVE STORY: A NEW CONFIGURATION OF THE OLD ONE AND ITS VARIATIONS

T. Horvath

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 3 > 176-212

In the study we analyse Poe's 'tales of ratiocination', inaugurating a detective genre. No one of the Poe's short stories as a whole fully fits with an 'ideal' model of a detective story 'according to the rules', but particular short stories are realisations of certain units of that model. A detective story was constituted as a real non-existing variant derived from the particular short stories as...

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TAJOVSKY'S CHOICE OF DESTINY

M. Mikulova

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 3 > 161-175

There are only several short stories in the work of Tajovsky with the themes of city life. In spite of the fact he knew city life very well; he seems more impressive in village themes. In his early prose 'Mládenci' (The Young Guys, 1902) about a stag café company and some banal themes he proved indirectly that writing is not a source of pleasure and fun for him but it is an analysis of important social...

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ROMANTICISM AND/OR/CONTRA BIEDERMEIER?

D. Turecek

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 4-5 > 243-251

The term Romanticism presents a traditional way of inner structuring and explanation of the history of Czech literature of the 19th century, but this term has been used differently in particular literary historical concepts. The pluralistic concept of Romanticism has not had a firm position in the Czech literary historical context, which is contrarily to the Slovak concept represented by O. Cepan...

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LITTLENESS OF THE CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE EUROPE, FOR EXAMPLE 'Slovensko a jeho zivot literárny' (Slovakia and Her Literary Life) by Jozef Miloslav Hurban

Ch. Prunitsch

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 4-5 > 252-261

'Littleness' appears as relevant for certain culture when it is determined by its own or foreign texts. This determination in an intercultural contact behaves as an explicit or implicit valuing act approached within the positions of superiority, inferiority, identity, alterity, translativity, singularity, as well as ancienity and juvenility. In the specific situation of the Slovak national revival...

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KOCURKOVO AS A SLOVAK ANTI-MYTH

P.. Zajac

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 4-5 > 348-368

In the 70s and the 80s of the 20th century, a new view of Záborsky's literary work began to occur. A. Bagin formed the key hypothesis about Záborsky as a modern author. The problem of comical in his works was opened by S. Rakus and A. Kruláková. A. Kruláková was also the first who depicted an irony line in the Slovak literature from Bajza, Chalupka to Záborsky. Then J. Stevcek, V. Mikula and P. Darovec...

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MODERN NOVELLAS BY MILO URBAN

A Zilkova

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 6 > 394-408

Similarly as many Slovak prose writers of the previous generation, in his collection of novellas 'Vykriky bez ozveny' (Cries without Echo) (1928), Milo Urban drew inspiration from rural environment. But Urban also introduced a modern universal topic in his novellas. It is certain distress, narrow-mindedness of village life. The main characters of Urban's stories, the village outsiders, experience...

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THE CRIMINAL GENEALOGY OF A DETECTIVE STORY (Pitaval. Vidocq. Literature on Crime. Aesthetics and London Murders in Fog)

T. Horvath

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 6 > 377-393

In the study we are constructing one branch of genealogical root in the development of detective genre - narration on criminal cases (Vidocq, De Quincey, Newgate Calendar) and famous trials (Pitaval). Pitaval is not only a collection of 'causes célébre' like it is in old literature about crime but the main topic is investigation and conviction of a criminal and finding him guilty by means of proves...

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FROM EMPATHY TO DISILLUSION AND INNER DISINTEGRATION (Vincent Sikula: 'S Rozarkou' (With Rozarka))

E. Jencikova

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2005 > 52 > 6 > 409-418

The way of depiction of the character of an outsider in the prose of Vincent Sikula from the 60s of the 20th century is in the centre of the study. The character of an outsider is not rare in Slovak literature. It was frequent at least since the period of realism in the works of M. Kukucín, Timrava or J.G. Tajovsky and later on it became common in Slovak literature between the two wars and in the...

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ESTABLISHING A CONCEPTION:1879-1881 (ABOUT LITERARY AESTETIC OPINIONS OF SVETOZAR HURBAN VAJANSKY)

I. Taranenkova-Liptakova

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2006 > 53 > 1 > 24-48

The study is a part of a research which through an analysis of Svetozár Hurban Vajanský's texts about culture, arts and literature published from 1879 to 1916 mostly in the 'Národné noviny' (The National Newspaper) and 'Slovenské pohlady' (The Slovak Views) tends to reconstruct the conception which stood behind the scene, stressing an organic unity of its elements - opinions of the nation, culture,...

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AN EDUCATION VIA MEMORY (LADISLAV BALLEK: 'JUZNA POSTA' /SOUTHERN POST/ )

V. Barborik

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2006 > 53 > 1 > 11-23

The study deals with a collection of short stories 'Juzná posta' (Southern Post, 1974), written by Slovak prose author Ladislav Ballek. Interpretation is based on an assumption of mutual and strong coherence between all the stories. All of them are interweaving into a consistent epic work. The message of each of them exceeds intention of autonomous story. A child protagonist Ján Jurkovic is an important...

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BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND ADVENTURE (RUDOLF JASIK: 'MRTVI NESPIEVAJU' /DEAD DO NOT SING/ )

Z. Pruskova

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2006 > 53 > 1 > 1-10

The text is a scholarly commentary of the war novel 'Dead Do Not Sing' written by Rudolf Jasik in 1961. The study is a part of a wide conceived collective grant :'The 20th Century Key Slovak Literary Works' focused on the explanation of a literary work within a specific context of the national literature. The aim of the study is to characterise qualities of the Jasik's work, a key work in the context...

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THE CONFIRMATION OF THE STARTING POINTS (THE OPINIONS OF S. H. VAJANSKY ON CULTURE, ARTS AND LITERATURE DURING 1882 -1890)

I. Taranenkova

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2006 > 53 > 2 > 110-129

The study continues in research of literary aesthetic opinions of S. H. Vajanský in the context of cultural conception. In the aesthetic starting points of Vajanský's conception a significant role was played by classicizing ideal, characterised by 'simplicity', 'adequacy', harmony and also by avoiding of extremes. Another important effect had also Hegelian aesthetics making its part on forming Vajanský's...

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WRITING AS A WAY TOWARDS THE REALITY (MILAN SIMECKA: 'LISTY Z VAZENIA, DOPISY Z VEZENI' - LETTERS FROM THE PRISON)

P. Matejovic

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature) > 2006 > 53 > 2 > 100-109

The work of Milan Simecka (1930 - 1990) is known in Slovakia predominantly in connection with his activities of a secularly oriented dissent. From the perspective of a literary genre the attention of literary theorists and critics was drawn to his journalism and essayistic, in which his civic attitudes are reflected. Less attention was given to his epistolary - memoir works, where we can identify...

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Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

MYTH AS A CODE OF NATIONAL ASPECT (of Jozef Gregor Tajovsky: 'Nas Jezisko')

A POET OF THE END

RIDER'S LEGEND IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF VAMOS'S PROSE WORK

AN ATTEMPT AT A LIFE ALTERNATIVE: PRICE FOR SECULARISATION (Dusan Kuzel: 'Lampa')

A JOURNEY TO 'A MAGIC OF UNWANTED' (Peter Pistanek: 'Mlady Donc')

'TO WRITE A TREMENDOUSLY BEAUTIFUL SENTENCE' (Rudolf Sloboda: 'Uhorsky rok')

PROBES AND MORALITIES (Ján Johanides: 'Sukromie')

EDGAR ALLAN POE AND A DETECTIVE STORY: A NEW CONFIGURATION OF THE OLD ONE AND ITS VARIATIONS

TAJOVSKY'S CHOICE OF DESTINY

ROMANTICISM AND/OR/CONTRA BIEDERMEIER?

LITTLENESS OF THE CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE EUROPE, FOR EXAMPLE 'Slovensko a jeho zivot literárny' (Slovakia and Her Literary Life) by Jozef Miloslav Hurban

KOCURKOVO AS A SLOVAK ANTI-MYTH

MODERN NOVELLAS BY MILO URBAN

THE CRIMINAL GENEALOGY OF A DETECTIVE STORY (Pitaval. Vidocq. Literature on Crime. Aesthetics and London Murders in Fog)

FROM EMPATHY TO DISILLUSION AND INNER DISINTEGRATION (Vincent Sikula: 'S Rozarkou' (With Rozarka))

ESTABLISHING A CONCEPTION:1879-1881 (ABOUT LITERARY AESTETIC OPINIONS OF SVETOZAR HURBAN VAJANSKY)

AN EDUCATION VIA MEMORY (LADISLAV BALLEK: 'JUZNA POSTA' /SOUTHERN POST/ )

BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND ADVENTURE (RUDOLF JASIK: 'MRTVI NESPIEVAJU' /DEAD DO NOT SING/ )

THE CONFIRMATION OF THE STARTING POINTS (THE OPINIONS OF S. H. VAJANSKY ON CULTURE, ARTS AND LITERATURE DURING 1882 -1890)

WRITING AS A WAY TOWARDS THE REALITY (MILAN SIMECKA: 'LISTY Z VAZENIA, DOPISY Z VEZENI' - LETTERS FROM THE PRISON)

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