DESIRE TO BE AN ARTIST (BOZENA SLANCIKOVA TIMRAVA: Great Master) (Tuzba byt umelcom (Bozena Slancikova Timrava: Velky majster))

• Authors: Suchankova Miriam
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

In the novelette Velky majster (Great Master) Timrava got rid of the conception of nationally enthusiastic country gentlemen and artists. She created rational types of artists for whom creative work is a serious occupation. She removed the bondage of the pressure caused by nationally reviving ambitions. She refused sentimental production of Romanticism presented by Vajansky and his epigones. She created characters, whose lives are influenced by ambitious motives, and contaminated by laziness social uselessness, parasitism. The main character steps on the pathway of self-transformation; this process is usually a part of the theme of being set free from self-complacent and became more authentic. She is not only ironic in her depiction of the creative struggle of artists; she shows a lot of empathy. Contrary to Vajansky Timrava destructs cliché, she follows up artistic process itself. Timrava want to express what is genuine, even in a case that she shows also unflattering side of spontaneity. Her approach revives the spontaneity itself that way. This method shows different inspirational resources for artistic work. Timrava stresses subject of text. She lets the main hero to declare the most critical opinions. As a result of that, the auctorial subject is in the background without any intervention into the text. This method enables Timrava to change the view on ideologically burdened character of artist and stress also negative view on artist by city people.

Keywords

EN

ARTIST; IRONY; RATIONAL TYPE OF ARTIST; SLOVAK LITERATURE; TIMRAVA SLANCIKOVA BOZENA

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 319-330
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Suchankova Miriam

• Miriam Suchankova, Ustav slovenskej literatury SAV, Konventna 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA09397