MEDZERY, RUPTÚRY, TRHLINY, HIÁTY – DISKONTINUITA A IDEÁL CELISTVOSTI V SLOVENSKEJ LITERATÚRE NA KONCI 19. STOROČIA

• Authors: Marcela Mikulová

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Gaps, breaks, disruptions, hiatuses – discontinuity and the ideal of wholeness in Slovak literature at the end of the 19th century

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The „Realistic“ as well as Modern authors modified Slovak literature at the end of the 19th century in different ways of representation. The study attempts to identify relevant features which show the authors´ retrograde motion expanding on the well-established national values and on the other hand the progressive literary motion heading towards the territory of the universal European values. M. Kukučín as the first of Slovak artists identified the central problem of the arts explicitly – the frequent incompatibility of an idea and its artistic form. He mentions a gap, an abyss which is impossible for an author to overcome. The study finds the Modern authors among those who admit the abyss moreover it become their creative base. The older generation tried to fill the gaps under the influence of the complete national literary system concept, especially those related to literary genres. In pursuit of establishing their own literary systems Hviezdoslav, Vajanský as well as Vansová have no interest in leaving free spaces for the readers to fill. The young generation of writers abandoned the ambition of the wholeness in the name of establishing the author´s subject. The context of Kukučín´s big unfinished novel projects, which present him as a complicated melancholic person – as opposed to what the tradition says, makes us realize that unwillingness to include these extensive prose fragments in Slovak literary historical continuity create an unfilled gap in Slovak literature of the 19th century.

Keywords

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KUKUČÍN MARTIN; GAP; LITERARY SYSTEM; TRADITION; MODERN LITERATURE; SLOVAK LITERATURE; HIATUSES

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 369 – 380

Contributors

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Marcela Mikulová

• Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV, Konventná 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic