PRÍSPEVKY K PRAVDEPODOBNÝM PRAMEŇOM ANEKDOT A FACÉCIÍ JOZEFA IGNÁCA BAJZU

• Authors: Liszka József

Title variants

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Contributions to the probable sources of Jozef Ignác Bajza’s anecdotes and facetiae

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Jozef Ignác Bajza’s collection of anecdotes and facetiae, a pioneering work in Slovak literature, was published in 1795 in Trnava. The collection, which has since become a book rarity, was republished in 1978 by J. Minárik, translated into modern Slovak literary language. Later publishers and analysts, aware that Bajza’s texts in fact provide the same view of the world that we have come to know through Arlotto, Gonella, Poggio, or Bebel, one of the (actually unwitting) forerunners of the Reformation, have tangentially (suspecting mainly Latin, German, and Polish predecessors) looked into the direct sources of Bajza’s anecdotes. Although the characteristic features of Bajza's narrative and style are ab ovo for the centuries-old genre itself, they are not unique to Bajza, but are also found in Democritus ridens (1770) and in the Hungarian S. Andrád (1789, 1790). And one of the presumed, indirect or direct precursors of all this is also present in the pages of the Vade Mecum (in whole or in part) (1774–1777), annotated by Friedrich Nikolai. This paper attempts to explore possible Hungarian and German sources for Bajza’s anecdotes and facetiae.

Keywords

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FOLKLORE; SLOVAK LITERATURE; ANECDOTE; FACETIAE; JOZEF IGNÁC BAJZA

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 40 – 63

Contributors

author

Liszka József

• Fórum inštitút pre výskum menšín – Výskumné centrum európskej etnológie, Parková 4, 931 01 Šamorín, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/EtnoRozpra.2025.32.1.01