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SÚDOBÁ KRITICKÁ RECEPCIA ROMÁNU AGÁTY (V SLOVENSKEJ PERIODICKEJ TLAČI)

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Hochel I.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

2012

vol. 59

issue 1

42 – 50

Ladislav Ballek´s novel Agáty (Black Locusts) was published in 1981. It was the time of normalization - political totalitarianism, which made every effort to regulate art production and declared socialist realism to be the only right creative method. Because writing truly about the present (and having the writings published) was impossible, and so was employing the techniques forged by the 1960s prose, writers had sought ways how to realize their creative ambitions without abandoning their principles. The writers began to prefer history and their childhood times, they fled to topic exile. In the field of literary criticism there was on going latent disagreement between the critics applying ideological criteria and those leaning on aesthetical views. The author of the article tracks the contemporary reception of that significant novel in question (the reviews and studies published shortly after its release), pays attention to the critics´ argumentation. However, the work was definitely well-received, one group of the critics used ideological terminology as well as ideological reasoning in their positive assessments, whereas the other group consistently adhered to aesthetical criteria. Thus two faces of Slovak literary criticism can be shown through the analysis of Ballek´s Agáty´s reception.

MOTÍV PALÁNKU V POETIKE BALLEKOVÝCH AGÁTOV

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Krnová K.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

2012

vol. 59

issue 1

29 – 41

The study deals with a partial subject of poetics, which Ladislav Ballek applied in his artistically most interesting work Agáty (1981, Black Locusts). It focuses on the transformation of space time (the town of Palánk), in terms of genre a varied epic reality, which develops a personal element (a town as a protagonist). The function change of the mentioned elements of Agáty´s motif structure is regarded as a result of a long-term process, which is obvious from the analysis of the poetics typical of the novella collection Južná pošta (1974, Southern post) and the novel Pomocník (1977, Assistant), which are both related to Agáty through their space time settings and migration of the characters. The summary of the original literary-critical findings, responding to Ballek´s novel poetics metamorphoses, is extended by both poet logical analysis of the titles and chapter titles found in the Palánk series (primary signals of the outlined process) and identification of a pattern-like nature of the space time organization of the prose Palánk – štvrť mačiek (Cat quarter, part 1 in the novel Agáty), which is applicable throughout the opus. This example is used to demonstrate ambivalence and dynamic nature of spatial parameters as well as the use of them in the motif axes of characters (personification) or space time is predetermined by the narrative strategy. It presents personification mechanisms in Pomocník and Agáty and the semantic results showing the artistic variety of both authors´ contexts and the prose in the 1970s and 1980s as a whole.

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2 Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

1 Hochel I.

1 Krnová K.

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SÚDOBÁ KRITICKÁ RECEPCIA ROMÁNU AGÁTY (V SLOVENSKEJ PERIODICKEJ TLAČI)

MOTÍV PALÁNKU V POETIKE BALLEKOVÝCH AGÁTOV