EDITINO MODRÉ OČKO A DVOJFAREBNÉ OČKO JAKUBKOVO

• Authors: Odokienko Fodorová Hana

Title variants

EN

Edith´s blue eye and Jakubko´s two-tone eye

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with literary representations of child and childhood in Slovak literary fiction. It was written as part of VEGA project. Both analysed texts use a perspective of adult narrator through which we can unmask the functions, status and shift/deformation of a child hero. One of the texts was meant for child reader, the other was not. In one case the character of a child serves the purpose of demonstrating the social and cultural phenomena (Gejza Vámoš: Editino očko), in the other the child serves the purpose of ideology (Hana Zelinová: Jakubko). But, even though they belong to different literary platforms, the texts have something in common – they are both told by someone whose life was changed by a child with the same characteristic feature – colour of their eyes. The eyes and their colour bear a significant role in the texts and may thus lead to a number of – so far undiscovered – connotations. Another important common feature is, that the child in both texts doesn’t act on its own, but as a representative of someone other’s thoughts and feelings. In case of Jakubko, the child hero is the author’s tool of demonstrating ideology and its ideal of national resistance against fascism. In case of the Editino očko, through child the thoughts and feelings of the main character are uncovered.

Keywords

EN

VÁMOŠ GEJZA; ZELINOVÁ HANA; JAKUBKO; EDITINO OČKO; COLOUR SYMBOLISM; CHILDHOOD; SLOVAK LITERATURE

• Publisher: Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica
• Journal: Motus in verbo: časopis mladej vedeckej generácie
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 26 – 33

Contributors

author

Odokienko Fodorová Hana