The paper analyses a – yet not reflected on – prose by a marginal Romantic writer Leopold Abafi (1827 – 1883) Vidina a skutočnosť /Illusion and Reality/, which was published as a serial in the magazine Sokol (1860). It deals with one of the major topics of Slovak Romantics – love of your homeland and determination to give yourself over to it, while the reduced plot and the emphasized reflexive element in the text make the prose seem like reflexive lyrical Romantic poems about love of one´s nation, which are continually present in Slovak literature throughout the19th century from the 1830s. The text analysis and secondary information sources (correspondence) helped the author of the paper date the text at the second half of the 1840s and put it in the context of the literary works by the poets of the so-called Levoča circle, where – according to Oskár Čepan – the efforts of Slovak Romantic thinking to form the ´Slovak lad´ prototype culminate. She finds and interprets another context of the prose in autobiographic genres published in the second half of the century (Závaté, ale nezapomenuté listí Jozefa Miloslava Hurbana, Hidden but unforgotten leaves of Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Sokol 1862; Rozpomienky na dni peknej mladosti Daniela Maróthyho, Memories of the Days of Daniel Marothy´s Nice Youth, Orol 1873).
The goal of the paper is to show that Lower-land Vojvodina (Northern Serbia), which was inhabited in the second half of the 18th century by Slovak evangelicals of the Augsburg confession for economic and religious reasons, was an environment where specific literary culture was created being mainly based on religious and educational literature. It focuses on one of the significant manifestations of this sort of literature, i.e. catechism production, which features two characteristic lines: the original domestic catechism (Matej Ambrózi Jádro náboženství křesťanského ku prospěchu evangelických konfirmantů - The Core of Christian Religion to the Benefit of Evangelical Confirmands, 1844) and the adaptation of a translation of a foreign (German) catechism (Leopold Abafi – Heinrich Wendel: Výklad malého katechismu Dr. Martina Luthera - The Interpretation of Dr Martin Luther´s Small Catechism, 1870). The paper, which is a result of literary and historical research methodologically and empirically anchored in the region of Vojvodina, is the first to clarify the circumstances and the context of creating both of the catechisms, although Abafi´s edition of Wendel´s catechism (nowadays archived in the parish library in Stará Pazova) is not available in Slovakia at all. Besides the first interpretative probe, which shows to what extent the artistic ambitions of the creators of the editions analysed were fulfilled, it interconnects and reflects on the discussion of the genre of catechism at that time.
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