MEDZI RURÁLNYM A URBÁNNYM (ZBIERKA NOVIEL MILA URBANA Z TICHÉHO FRONTU, 1932)

• Authors: Csiba Karol

Title variants

EN

Between the rural and the urban (the collection of Milo Urban’s novels “Z tichého frontu” (1932)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The collection of short proses Z tichého frontu. Časové rozprávky (From the silent front. Temporal tales) by Milo Urban (1904 – 1982) published in 1932 brought a selection of the author’s mostly magazine-published prose from the second half of the 1920s. The study recapitulates period critical and later literary-historical reflection on the book, revealing its broader socio-cultural context through parallels with Urban’s other work, especially his journalism and autobiographical prose. A key focus of the analysis is Urban’s depiction of the town-village relationship, presented as part of the modernist discourse in interwar Slovakia. Utilizing Roger Griffin’s concepts, the study examines the portrayal of disoriented individuals, whose lack of direction results from societal transformations and atomization. Another theme is the concept of ‘modernist nationalism,’ linked to the search for new certainties influencing human consciousness and sensibility. The study also addresses Urban’s ambivalent definitions of life, shaped by the relationship between regularity and coincidence, which are central themes in his novels.

Keywords

EN

NOVELLA; VILLAGE; CITY; MODERNISM; MILO URBAN

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 615 – 627

Contributors

author

Csiba Karol

• Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV, Dúbravska cesta 9, 841 05 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6738-107X

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2024.71.6.6