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MYTH AS A CODE OF NATIONAL ASPECT (of Jozef Gregor Tajovsky: 'Nas Jezisko')

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Mikulova M.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2005
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vol. 52
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issue 1
25-33
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The short story 'Nas Jezisko' (Our Baby Jesus) belongs to the Tajovsky's thematic cycle focused on ethnology and collecting of folk artefacts. The short story 'Nas Jezisko' (1918) was written by Tajovsky as a legionary at the end of WWI . It is a lyrical reminiscence, accompanying us through times and periods, when a narrator as a child experiences amazing impressions from the Christmas Holy Mass, he thinks back on an odour of frankincense, songs of shepherds, joy of all who participate in the birth of Jesus. After many years new ceremonial orders come to the church, people do not understand a (Hungarian) language, even the baby Jesus is different, having boots on. Author connects a magic of folk ceremonies with a Slovak word, which represents semantics of representative sign. Through a myth about nativity of Christ Tajovsky illustrates how much destructively Hungarisation damaged our national substance.
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TAJOVSKY'S CHOICE OF DESTINY

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Mikulova M.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2005
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vol. 52
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issue 3
161-175
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There are only several short stories in the work of Tajovsky with the themes of city life. In spite of the fact he knew city life very well; he seems more impressive in village themes. In his early prose 'Mládenci' (The Young Guys, 1902) about a stag café company and some banal themes he proved indirectly that writing is not a source of pleasure and fun for him but it is an analysis of important social content and also that his leaving the city themes was just an expression of his aesthetic preferences. The best known text 'Maco Mliec' (1903) is a short story, in which in the beginning of his carrier as a writer he demonstrates his philosophy - to present an ordinary life as an extraordinary, exceptional. Tajovsky builds the short story as a provocative alternative to 'paper' Vajansky like 'ideal' heroes, in which a main character is an ugly person, unacceptable and dishonoured by all people, a servant of the village. His name is Maco. The author predicts also all possible problems with acceptance of him and that is expressed by a narrator who represents 'public opinion'. He does not understand Maco's unwillingness to change his destiny. Contrary to the author himself he does not consider Maco to be a valuable and unique human being. 'Ironic gap', which comes from the contradiction between the opposite opinions of the author and narrator, is very clear in the crucial issue - who is guilty of Maco's destiny (a farmer or he himself). The question represents discrepancy between realistic - verifiable depiction of the world and alternative modern relativism. The short story 'Maco Mliec' is inwardly semantically 'balanced' in its expression. It reflects inner uncertainty of the subject of the author, which leads to making a multilevel structure of the text. Through an antinomy of loneliness of individuality within the collective and his inner distance from people of different value priorities the author anticipates a dominant theme of the lyrical prose and naturism.
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TRANSFORMATION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND POPULAR LITERATURE IN JESENSKÝ'S CONCEPT OF THE NOVEL - 2ND PART

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Mikulova M.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2008
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vol. 55
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issue 4
229-260
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Janko Jesensky's novel 'Demokrati' (Democrats, vol. I -1924, vol. II -1938) has been interpreted as a political novel. We wanted to prove that it is a hidden autobiography (crypto-text). The inner content of it is determined by sadness and melancholy. Those emotional conditions make an impulse for the author to work out the theme growing in him as a commitment to himself and his parents. Inner motivation of the novel 'Demokrati' was to 'talk out' of his trauma from father's death and what caused it. The causes of his death were of political character. This theme, which was revealed after the documentary testimonies of his contemporaries and also author's personal correspondence, is projected into several characters in the novel - mainly into an advocate Dr. Landik, a politician Petrovic and a banker Rozvalida. The author's rich experiences with high political area gave him a sufficient material to construct satirically critical picture of the setting. It gained him a lot of applause among the readers. The author's goal did not tend to critical correction of the contemporary moral but was based on searching of the traditional morally constants. The world of high policy and society is confronted though values with 'low' social groups such as humanly high valuable character of a cook Hanka and her love relationship with Dr. Landik. Happy-end of that sentimental story is an author's signal that victory of good over the evil belongs to world of popular, low-priced literature, not into reality. The novel can be read though several codes: as an sentimental story, political pamphlet and in inner structure also as author's 'elegiac piece' and life balance message.
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A GAME AND (OR) A LIFE, MISANTHROPY A LA SLOVAK (BOZENA SLANCIKOVA-TIMRAVA: UINKIND PEOPLE)

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Mikulova M.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2006
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vol. 53
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issue 3-4
169-177
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The novelette 'Nemili' (Unkind People, 1899) confirms by its poetics and interpretation of reality that Timrava is a typical author of modern Slovak prose. This work can be characterised as a contribution to a decomposition of a fixture of realistic writing. Destabilised of up to that time integral world of prose happens on all the levels of her texts, it influences mainly the semantic core. In that period up-to-date analogy of fate, life and cards became a base of the story. Timrava uses a card game as a tool of original interpretation of social relationships. But primarily (relaxing) determination disappeared from the game. The game became a stereotyped duty, which reveals 'ontological vacuum' of a characters' being. The story is focused on the 'problem' of Saba, the main character, a daughter of a village pastor. The question is whom she can marry, as she is 'neither nice nor rich or even bright'. Parallel to a card game a 'love game' is being developed also among other characters - while epilogue of the novelette stresses a victory of things happening by chance in the love relationships among characters. It is a part of the author's strategy - 'a game with a reader'. The first plan point that life and relationships happen only by chance like a game, has an opposite point in the deep structure of the text. It is a consciousness of an existential inevitability, inscribed into the 'fate' of people of a certain social position. Banality, nihilism, illiberality, lukewarmness - it is never ending meaningless cycle of the village intelligence in Timrava's story - her existentional misanthropy, with a hidden message about human being, seeking and not finding of a harmonic fulfilment of the life.
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