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

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Matejovic P.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2006

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tom 53

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nr 2

100-109

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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 in significant presence of aesthetic moments. This is what the author of the study wants to stress. Simecka's 'Letters from the prison' (1999) are an object of interpretation.. He wrote them during politically motivated imprisonment in 1981-1982. Simecka's letters are marked by actual life situation - their author had to count with permanent presence of prison censorship and creates his own language and 'substitute' apolitical themes connected with his private life. That is why he works more with metonymy and metaphor and he is more 'artistic' than openly socially -critical, as it is visible in his journalistic and essayistic works from the 70th and 80th. The author of the study refers to the text of Peter Zajac 'Aesthetic as a Life Principal', where this aspect of the works of Simecka was correlated to European philosophical tradition. Thematic pendant to Simecka's letters a German protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer's letters from prison are shown 'On the Way To Freedom' and letters of Václav Havel, published as 'Letters to Olga'. The common experience in the extreme life situation made them connected. They result in the same reaction - creating an alternative reality differently structured from the true one behind the walls of their prison. The study reflects theoretic results of a Czech literary critic J. Lopatka, who in the 80th dealt with autobiographic genres. From the stylistic aspect the author of the study analyses Simecka's letters as a proto-text of 'erziehungsnovel', from the aspect aesthetics and of value he put him into wider Czecho-Slovak literary and philosophic context (V. Havel, L. Vaculik, D. Tatarka, I. Kadlecik, R. Sloboda, K. Kosik, J. Patocka, V. Belohradský). The author of the study compares a philosophical essay 'Letters about the Character of Reality', which is also included into these texts, with Bondy's 'Consolation from Ontology', which is a 'classical' work of Czech philosophical underground. He points out an ecologic measure of Simecka's opinions, rooted in the reforming Marxism of the 60th, as well as in the critic of technocratism in the works of representatives of the Frankfurt School.

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PROBES AND MORALITIES (Ján Johanides: 'Sukromie')

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Matejovic P.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2005

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tom 52

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nr 2

81-94

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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 canon of the Socialist Realism of the 50th ), an symptomatic and representative opus. There are opinions, new aesthetic and philosophical concepts popular in new generation of prose authors; they try to express them through an individual creative gesture. Many critics try to make connections between these literary works and modern philosophical and literary trends (mainly with Existentialism and French new novel). From the point of form and genre Johanides does experiments with the plot and narrative strategies, he creates variants of the narrator's position and he models a literary space and time. His interpretations are rooted in the theoretical concepts of P. Ricoeur, M. Bachtin, J. Derrida, D. Hodrová and N. Krausová. In the end of his study the author states that there is a dominant thematically ideological line over the formally stylistic variety of the prose of Johanides, which carries moral and psychological core.

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COUNTRY AS AN ELEMENT OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF VLADIMIR MINAC

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Matejovic P.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2007

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tom 54

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nr 4

241-254

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The article deals with a problem of self-identification in the literary works of Vladimir Minac. It comes out at two concepts of self-identification - an individual experience and a collective, confessional or national concept while the ambition is to depict it in the universal terms. The literary work of Vladimir Minac is an illustration of mutual interaction between two poles of self-identification mentioned above. Both of the poles condition each other, overlap and reshuffle depending on contemporary cultural and social context. Both aspects are not in an opposite contrary position, they complete each other dialectically. Minac comes with his own version of the 'national history' rooted in the romantic traditions. In his prosaic and essayistic works he often turns his attention to her as she means a refuge for him, his solid wall resistant against the attacks of the outer world. The country appears in many forms ('existential', 'constructional', 'romantic', 'private'), while she also represents a topically-thematic invariant placing over controversy and chaos of the people's world. The text is a part of a monograph of the literary works of V. Minac that is focused on the motif of country in his literary works.