„PREPISOVANIE“ PAMÄTI V SPOMIENKOVEJ KNIHE MILA URBANA NA BREHU KRVAVEJ RIEKY (1994)

• Authors: Csiba Karol

Title variants

EN

“Rewriting” the memory in Milo Urban’s memoirs Na brehu krvavej rieky ([On the bank of a bloody river] 1994)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The article looks into how history is created and modelled in Milo Urban’s (1904 – 1982) third book of memoirs Na brehu krvavej rieky [On the bank of a bloody river] (1994). The autobiographical character of the book is constructed through being positioned him into various scenes and portrayed him from different perspectives. The article concentrates mainly on outlining this authorial self-portrayal in the historical context of the Second World War. The memoirs provide a portrait of Milo Urban as both a public persona – writer, journalist and chief editor of the radical fascist newspaper Gardista – and as a husband and father. Methodologically, the article draws on literature that conceptualises autobiographical texts as ways of narrative shaping of the past by an individual. It is not just the personal history and individual identity that are formed in this way, but also collective memory and identity. Autobiographies as such are in this respect viewed as important part of collective memory, since they influence how we view the past and which events are to be remembered and which are to be erased.

Keywords

EN

MEMORY; MEMORIES; MILO URBAN

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 258 – 267

Contributors

author

Csiba Karol

• Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV, v. v. i. Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2022.69.3.4