PLASTICITY OF SIKULA'S EARLY FICTION (Tvarnost Sikulovej ranej prozy)

• Authors: Barborik Vladimir
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the first of two collection of short stories written by Vincent Sikula 'Na koncertoch sa netlieska' (It Is Not To Clap During The Concert) and 'Mozno si postavim bungalow' (I May Build Up A Bungallow). Both of them were published in 1964. The analysis of the category of narrator is a core of the work. The narrator is a key element in Sikula's fiction. It is mainly about a position of the narrator in the narrative, about his attitude to the event he talks about. In the early period of Sikula's fiction we can determine both divergent and co-operative lines of narration. The first one is focused on depiction about itself, on expression, prosaic objectification of the inner condition ('Me expanding to the world': depiction of the world by the subject) for which the feeling of injustice is characteristic: subjective hypostasis in major way makes an influence in the plan of depiction of the outward setting as well as the plan of the plot. Similarly with that line Sikula develops also a contradictory approach, in which the narrator pays attention to the others, mainly to the people representing social majority ('humiliated and offended'): subject of the narrator - without being excluded - makes a space for others ('Me is opened to the world'). There are not only two contradictory concepts of narration, but also of the subject. The second one becomes similar to characteristics, which was in regard with subject said by a French philosopher Remi Brague: 'I am nothing, I am not more than that movement of disappearing, which makes a free space for integration of that what it is'.

Keywords

EN

NARRATION; NARRATOR; SHORT FICTION; SIKULA VINCENT; SLOVAK LITERATURE; SUBJECT

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 5-6
• Pages: 345-380
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Barborik Vladimir

• Vladimir Barborik, Ustav slovenskej literatury SAV, Konventna 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic; www.uslit.sav.sk/slovlit.htm

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA08561