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HIDDEN IDENTITY OF A 'BUILDER'S' BALLADE (ALFONZ BEDNAR: 'SKLENY VRCH' (GLASS MOUNT))

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Pruskova Z.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2006
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vol. 53
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issue 3-4
200-207
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The study about the Bednár's debut 'Sklený vrch' (The Glass Mount) is focused on an analysis of the stylistic, generic and generally aesthetic fragmentation and ambivalence in ideologically motivated prose work written actually in the post war period. The base is a new reading of canonical texts from the Slovak literature in the light of new interpretations and knowledge and with applying of actual theoretic tools. Actual view at Bednár's debut enlighten also a wider context of his literary work, mostly of him as a scenarist; this author repetitively used methods of a fantasy fiction represented by genre references and often quotations from the folk and literary ballade, fairy tale and tales. In the interpretational key of parallel interactive motives ideologically and moralistically planned novelistic project overlaps into a position of existentially motivated writing. His complicated composition, expressively individualised type of a female character and also a genre of memoirs from the three different life periods of the female narrator altogether model the novel of Bednár as an initiating attempt to socially critical epics with some features of popular and interesting reading. From the aspect of topical reflection a literary alliance between the contemporary order to make a heroic, war novel, or a novel about partisan resistance or even the novel about building up socialist society and the plot methods of psychological fiction, as well as parallel genre references to ballade about an unfulfilled love and a fatal predestination of human fate as a consequence, even punishment for a betray, falling, or guilt, which influence controversially so simple and linear story. The contribution of a new reading of Bednár's debut as a key title from the post war production of the 50-ties is more structured and more differentiated view at the literature, which was not considered to be an original, critical and, towards the historical period, autocorrected and subversive writing.
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BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND ADVENTURE (RUDOLF JASIK: 'MRTVI NESPIEVAJU' /DEAD DO NOT SING/ )

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Pruskova Z.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2006
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vol. 53
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issue 1
1-10
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The text is a scholarly commentary of the war novel 'Dead Do Not Sing' written by Rudolf Jasik in 1961. The study is a part of a wide conceived collective grant :'The 20th Century Key Slovak Literary Works' focused on the explanation of a literary work within a specific context of the national literature. The aim of the study is to characterise qualities of the Jasik's work, a key work in the context of close and farther literary environment, from the aspect of the history of literature, typology as well as its narrowly defined poetical features. The bases of the study is classification of the novel according to historically generic circumstances, typical for a part of Slovak prosaic texts depicting WW II and the national resistance, written per order, but in fact exceeding literary quality or at least relativising ideological demands to write under the plain-colour optic. This kind of literature includes works by D. Tatarka, A. Bednár or L. Lahola. They are symptomatically influenced by dramatic, tragic even absurd war experience (Tatarka's 'The Cock in Agony', Lahola's 'The Last Thing'). Some of the war testimonies or the war resistance experiences are patterned through parallel literary techniques and strategies (interpolation of the balladry structure into composition and narration of Bednár's 'The Glass Mout'). Jasik's novel connects techniques of autobiography and expressive existential involvement of the narrator with unusual topos of subject-composition intervention of the adventurous genre in ideologically stressed narration about relative character of heroism or a heroic act. Jasik's strong point is a hero modelled at the edge of a type and character. In his novel 'Dead Do not Sing' it is presented by a young guardian, later partisan J. Klako. From the literary aspect he does not fit with the scheme of an ideal character, but he is introduced as an adventurous easygoing figure. Only after a traumatized experience having faced unconditional choice in an extreme situation (life or death) he becomes a hero co-organizing dangerous liberating operation in an occupied city. In the novel 'Dead Do not Sing' Jasik introduces non-schematic picture of good and evil, brave and faint-hearted people. The war itself - apocalyptic, beyond all understanding is a real 'hero' of his unfinished trilogy - a man- exceeding modality unable to bring any conditions for ideological decoration and an idle opinion, typical for schematic literature. Beside Lahola's short prose Jasik's novel, as one of the few war theme texts in Slovak literature after 1945, fulfils European and worldly established concept of front line and war literature qualitatively comparable with the war texts of the Lost Generation authors.
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'TO WRITE A TREMENDOUSLY BEAUTIFUL SENTENCE' (Rudolf Sloboda: 'Uhorsky rok')

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Pruskova Z.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2005
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vol. 52
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issue 2
95-103
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The study is at attempt of a rereading and interpretation of the book 'Uhorsky rok' (Hungarian Year) written by Rudolf Sloboda with regard to its temporal and over temporal ideological, generic, stylistic uniqueness. As a context for the interpretation we consider a transparent connection of the book with the influences of surrealism, represented by the Latréamont's literary message as an aspiration for free, playful and associatively free writing. In accord with to that the author of the study was focused mostly on two texts from the book - the first short story 'Mesto, srdce, vysvedcenie, dievca' (A City, A Heart, A Progress Report, A Girl) and the last of the short stories 'Uru, alebo Dobrý deň, Lotor Amont' (Uru or Good Day, Criminal Amont).
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DOMINIK TATARKA: FORMING OF DISCOURSE OF MORAL AND CIVIC SUBVERSION IN THE NOVELLA 'PRÚTENÉ KRESLÁ' (BASKET CHAIRS)

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Pruskova Z.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2007
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vol. 54
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issue 5
347-356
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The object of the study is a novella 'Prutene kresla' (Basket Chairs, 1963) written by Dominik Tatarka. This novella was published altogether with his other prose 'Demon suhlasu' (Demon of Permission). The Basket Chairs signalised the new and later also characteristic features of Tatarka's auctorial idiolect. After existentially surrealistic beginning and ideologically incorrect continuance Tatarka's prose had been since the end of 50-tieth (from his bi-novella 'Rozhovory bez konca' (Endless Conversations, 1959) influenced by his effort to find his own strategy in creating his message about the contemporary ethic and aesthetic problems. A theme of existence for other person became for him a medium of such message. It meant a voluntary but also spontaneous fellowship, personal involvement in a life and destiny of a neighbour. Since the end of 50-tieth Tatarka's literary works pursued 'hand by hand' with his essays and reportages. In spite of the author's as well as period's limits the novella 'Prutene kresla' connects all mentioned above influences in a good way. Modernity in that text bears a character of self-discovery and self-identification in the existentially vulnerable historical period and as well as in cosmopolite space of later taboo 'western' world. Except of that in a very interesting way the author worked with traditional cliche of a courteousness love epic. In that text Tatarka discovered his typical autobiographic protagonist who became a narrator. It makes the novella quite important in the context of his proses. Tatarka's narrator's stylisation is based on a connection between reminiscent story telling and evocation with exemplary didactic effects.
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