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TRANSFORMATION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND POPULAR LITERATURE IN JESENSKÝ'S CONCEPT OF THE NOVEL - 2ND PART

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Mikulova M.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2008

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tom 55

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nr 4

229-260

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Janko Jesensky's novel 'Demokrati' (Democrats, vol. I -1924, vol. II -1938) has been interpreted as a political novel. We wanted to prove that it is a hidden autobiography (crypto-text). The inner content of it is determined by sadness and melancholy. Those emotional conditions make an impulse for the author to work out the theme growing in him as a commitment to himself and his parents. Inner motivation of the novel 'Demokrati' was to 'talk out' of his trauma from father's death and what caused it. The causes of his death were of political character. This theme, which was revealed after the documentary testimonies of his contemporaries and also author's personal correspondence, is projected into several characters in the novel - mainly into an advocate Dr. Landik, a politician Petrovic and a banker Rozvalida. The author's rich experiences with high political area gave him a sufficient material to construct satirically critical picture of the setting. It gained him a lot of applause among the readers. The author's goal did not tend to critical correction of the contemporary moral but was based on searching of the traditional morally constants. The world of high policy and society is confronted though values with 'low' social groups such as humanly high valuable character of a cook Hanka and her love relationship with Dr. Landik. Happy-end of that sentimental story is an author's signal that victory of good over the evil belongs to world of popular, low-priced literature, not into reality. The novel can be read though several codes: as an sentimental story, political pamphlet and in inner structure also as author's 'elegiac piece' and life balance message.

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METAFORICKÝ VAMPIRIZMUS HRDINIEK SLOVENSKEJ MEDZIVOJNOVEJ PRÓZY (HRUŠOVSKÝ, ŠVANTNER)

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Goszczyńska J.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2013

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tom 60

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nr 2

93 – 104

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The article analyses vampirical motifs – elements of great importance within the Dark Romanticism trend – in texts by two representatives of Slovak literature of the interwar period: Muž s protézou (Man with prosthesis) by Ján Hrušovský and František Švantner´s Nevesta hôľ (The Bride of the Mountains). In both cases the vampirism involved is of erotic character, what differs, however, is the degree to which it is metaphorical. Hrušovský employs some elements of the vampire´s condition, thus enlarging the scope of the modernist textual manoeuvers, whereas the creation of the vampirical heroine in Švantner´s prose falls into the pattern of elements contributing to the structure of the gothic in the novel.

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MILAN ZELINKA – ONESKORENÝ DEBUTANT

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Macsaliová L.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2016

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tom 63

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nr 3

207 – 214

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The goal of the paper is to deal with the issue of a generation representative and to answer the question how the affiliation to a generation was applied to selected authors in the line of Slovak prose written in the 1960s. At the same time there is an attempt to find out whether Milan Zelinka as a late debut author belongs or not to the line mentioned above. The paper is built on the dictionary entries defining „generation“, the history of Slovak literature, critical memoirs, contemporary research into Slovak literature written in the 1960s as well as the literary reflection on Zelinka´s debut of those times. The new concepts became the centre of attention – authenticity, estrangement, absurdity, experiment, everyday life elements, chance, anxiety, loneliness or dehumanization. While looking for a single generational line, having support in the survey named „Hľadanie prózy“/Finding Prose, which was carried out in Kultúrny život (1967), two lines of literature have been found. On the one hand finding and testing new techniques and methods of writing and on the other hand turning to the inner world of a human, authenticity or subjectivization. The book debut Dych/Breath by Milan Zelinka has been classified in the same generation line (Peter Jaroš, Rudolf Sloboda, Pavel Vilikovský, Pavel Hrúz, Ladislav Ballek, Dušan Kužel, Vlado Bednár) for several reasons. His short stories feature notable experiment, grotesque elements, absurdity, bizarre elements, parody, comic situations in order to describe the characters, their estranged, lonely individualities, manifested in the author´s own creative gesture.

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RIVERS OF BABYLON – POSTMODERNÝ BILDUNGSROMAN, ROMÁN KONCA DEJÍN

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Taranenková I.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2018

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tom 65

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nr 3

183 - 197

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The paper interprets the novel Rivers of Babylon (1991) by Peter Pišťanek in the context of the postmodernism analysis by Frederick Jameson and the statements on the End of History by F. Fukuyama. It does not reconstruct only the reception of the novel but also the period discussions about the stratification of the genres of contemporary Slovak prose, which was conditioned by challenging historicity as well as historical awareness. The novel by P. Pišťanek is characterized here as a text which in the context of period Slovak literature manifested the attributes of postmodernism in the way they were defined by F. Jameson in his book Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) – these include „historical deafness“, „depthlessness“, „waning of effect“, as well as postmodern irony created in the form of pastiche. At the same time it also thematizes the situation of Slovak society at the moment of the political transformation when the structures of the old system are collapsing and a new one is being established. This is the moment which defines the modification of the genre structures of the novel which control the central syuzhet line of the novel linked to the protagonist, Rácz. Pišťanek´s text can be regarded as a travesty of Bildungsroman, based on a story of integrating in society, on accepting the state of the world. In this case the integration of the protagonist takes place in the era of „End of History“, the loss of trustworthiness of any norms. In the novel there are parallels in Fukuyama´s reflections on society after the End of History, especially in those points that do not sound so triumphant or optimistic as their fundamental proposition, saying that what will stir the social process is the struggle for recognition. In these moments the central theme of the novel can be interpreted in the context of Hegel´s master-slave dialectic.

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POLEMIKA O ANJELSKÝCH ZEMIACH AKO LITERÁRNOHISTORICKÝ PROBLÉM

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Matejovič P.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2013

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tom 60

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nr 5

359 – 370

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The subject of the study is an analysis of historiographic position of Jozef Felix´s article published in 1946 O nové cesty v próze alebo problém „anjelských zemí“ v našej literatúre (After New Ways in Prose or the Issue of „Angel Lands“ in Our Literature) and the polemic it caused at that time. The author focuses on revealing the reasons which allowed Slovak Marxist literary historiography to label Felix´s article as the starting point when Slovak after-war prose „definitely leant towards“ Socialist Realism. The author opposes this literary-historical construct by claiming that Felix´s article and the related polemic were a part of the argument about what is modern in the Slovak literature in 1946, and not a part of the argument between the Modern Slovak literature and the Literature of Socialist Realism. The latter argument arose only subsequently and it was prompted by the political situation in Czechoslovakia in 1948.

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POVEDAŤ VIAC (SEBA-KONŠTRUKCIA: PODOBA V. ŠIKULU V AUTOBIOGRAFICKÝCH TEXTOCH)

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Barborík V.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2013

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tom 60

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nr 3

209 – 232

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The study deals with the autobiographical writings by the Slovak prose writer Vincent Šikula. It tracks the development and the contemporary transformations of the author´s self-image from the beginning of his career as a writer in the 1960s until the end of his life in 2001. It builds on widely available sources, i.e. Šikula´s non-fiction writings of memoir nature, such as reflections on him and the others, biographical sketches, essays, the answers in interviews, articles and surveys and so on. The author approaches them as a Modern subjective and therefore biased representation. The individual phases of his creative life show that Šikula saw his past and present in different ways. The form of his self-presentation was defined by the inner, in the course of time changing motivations and ambitions that is the efforts to take a certain place in the contemporary literary and public cultural environment, as well as the outer conditions and constraints, which underwent changes, too. Šikula began to create his own „portrait of the artist“ meant for the public as early as he embarked on his career as a writer in the mid-1960s, then in the following two decades he presented his modified version adjusted to the times, and in the period of time after the year 1990 the image became somehow completed and after his death definite. However, none of the depictions of his life in any of the periods of time mentioned contradicts what he had said about himself previously or would say later, the individual versions of him did not rule out the others, although in each of them he placed weight on a different aspect of his writer life.

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TELLING OF ORDINARY OR STORIES OF LONG DURATION (HISTORICAL PROSE OF JOZEF HORAK, MARGITA FIGULI AND LUDO ZUBEK)

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Bilik R.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2008

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tom 55

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nr 5

317-347

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Presented study is an interpretation of key Slovak literary pieces of historical genre written in 40-tieth and the first half of 50-tieth of the 20th c. Particularly there are a novel 'Zlate mesto' (Golden City) by J. Horak, M. Figuli's 'Babylon' and a novelette 'Skryty pramen' (Hidden Resource) by L. Zubek. Those three publications help to present the fact, that historical genre is based on ambivalence of event and duration. Historical event is not in the centre like dynamic sujet event but everyday human life is like natural foundation of that event. The archetypal conventions of myth represent a leading element of that structural setting. Reading of Horak's and Figuli's novels and the novelette of L. Zubek showed that through those works aesthetically problematic line in the history of historical genre in Slovak prose has been extended. The novels are in connection with mythically pragmatic line. Contra-factual influence against contemporary socially political situation was a part of their reception meaning. It is an extension of the line on the beginning of which J. M. Hurban stood and which continued in the period between the World War I and World War II through the historical novels of Martin Kukucin and Martin Razus. Participation of the prosaic works studied in that article shows in both mentioned above lines specifics of time, in which they were written as well as specific functions, which appear always in connections with historical genre, when texts written in that genre appears in the contemporary literary life in the centre of attention.