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PODOBY MESTSKÉHO A PRÍRODNÉHO PROSTREDIA V PRÓZACH MÁRIUSA KOPCSAYA, MONIKY KOMPANÍKOVEJ A PETRA KRIŠTÚFKA

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Badžgoňová K.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2020
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vol. 67
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issue 2
139 – 156
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The paper deals with the relation between the urban and natural/rural environments in the contemporary Slovak prose with regard to Slovak literary tradition and reflecting on the current changes of a town as exemplified by texts of three authors M. Kopcsay, M. Kompaníká and P. Krištúfek. Slovak literature was dominated by the anti-urban solution to the antinomy of the urban and natural environments – the negative depiction of a town along with idealization of the natural environment, which are still in use. The texts reflect on the transformations of a contemporary town and show that the ideal of natural life is an urban construct to a certain extent, and they challenge the traditional motif of a journey from a town back to the country and thematise the disappearing boundaries between the urban and natural environments by using the motifs of the uncontrollably expanding urban environment, peri-urbanization as well as the motifs of urban wilderness. At the same time, by blending foreign elements the texts employ heterogeneity and ambiguity typical of the urban environment.
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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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METAFORICKÝ VAMPIRIZMUS HRDINIEK SLOVENSKEJ MEDZIVOJNOVEJ PRÓZY (HRUŠOVSKÝ, ŠVANTNER)

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Goszczyńska J.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2013
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vol. 60
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issue 2
93 – 104
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The article analyses vampirical motifs – elements of great importance within the Dark Romanticism trend – in texts by two representatives of Slovak literature of the interwar period: Muž s protézou (Man with prosthesis) by Ján Hrušovský and František Švantner´s Nevesta hôľ (The Bride of the Mountains). In both cases the vampirism involved is of erotic character, what differs, however, is the degree to which it is metaphorical. Hrušovský employs some elements of the vampire´s condition, thus enlarging the scope of the modernist textual manoeuvers, whereas the creation of the vampirical heroine in Švantner´s prose falls into the pattern of elements contributing to the structure of the gothic in the novel.
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MEDZI HISTORICKÝM FAKTOM A FIKCIOU: INTERDISKURZÍVNE KONŠTRUOVANIE FIKČNÝCH SVETOV V SÚČASNEJ SLOVENSKEJ PRÓZE S HISTORICKOU TEMATIKOU

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Jančovič I.
World Literature Studies
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2021
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vol. 13
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issue 4
5 - 15
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This article pays attention to the relation between historical knowledge and historical prose. It describes the historical genre as an interdiscursive invariant of the author and reader conventions. Its production and reception variants activate interdiscursive action, important for the proper functioning of the genre convention. The author focuses on thematic elements, which in historical knowledge represent a trace of the past – a proof of past events. The writer incorporates documents, photographs, facts found in archives, findings of archaeologists, etc. into the theme of the text. In examining different ways of incorporating these traces existing behind the text into fiction, the article treats Jozef Banáš’s Zastavte Dubčeka! (Stop Dubček!, 2009), Jaro Rihák’s Pentcho (2015), Pavol Rankov’s Matky (Mothers, 2011) and Silvester Lavrík’s Nedeľné šachy s Tisom (Sunday chess with Tiso, 2016) and Posledná barónka (The last Baroness, 2019). In historical prose, the rules of text reception include recognizing the correlation between the thematic elements and historical knowledge, as well as observing the creative transfer of these elements undergo to co-create new horizons of meaning.
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OBRAZ METODA AKO LITERÁRNEJ POSTAVY V SLOVENSKEJ PRÓZE

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Vančo D.
Konštantínove listy
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2023
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vol. 16
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issue 2
136 - 146
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The aim of the article is to examine the image of Methodius as a literary character in the main literary texts of Slovak prose, which are thematically focused on the period of Great Moravia. We work with texts by three authors, namely J. M. Hurban: Svadba kráľa veľkomoravského (1842); M. Ferko: Svätopluk (1975) and Svätopluk a Metod (1985); F. Rábek: Tajomstvo Zoborského kláštora (2019). We use the techniques of text analysis, interpretation and comparison. Using eight criteria, we observe in what ways the mentioned authors’ approaches in a connection to the reflection of Methodius coincide and in what ways they differ. Our attention is focused on the following aspects: the time span of the plot, character traits, character development and psychologization, the relationship between Methodius and Svätopluk, Methodius‘ disputes with the Frankish bishops, the role of Methodius in the spread of Christianity in Bohemia, the role of Methodius in the literary text and intertextuality in a relation to medieval texts. Despite certain differences, a positive character image of Methodius dominates in Slovak prosaic texts – it varies between mythicization, demythicization and glorification. The most plastic portrayal of the character of Methodius can be observed in the novels of M. Ferko. Authors of modern literary texts preserve the idea of Methodius as a saint, which has been handed down since the Middle Ages.
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MILAN ZELINKA – ONESKORENÝ DEBUTANT

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Macsaliová L.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2016
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vol. 63
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issue 3
207 – 214
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The goal of the paper is to deal with the issue of a generation representative and to answer the question how the affiliation to a generation was applied to selected authors in the line of Slovak prose written in the 1960s. At the same time there is an attempt to find out whether Milan Zelinka as a late debut author belongs or not to the line mentioned above. The paper is built on the dictionary entries defining „generation“, the history of Slovak literature, critical memoirs, contemporary research into Slovak literature written in the 1960s as well as the literary reflection on Zelinka´s debut of those times. The new concepts became the centre of attention – authenticity, estrangement, absurdity, experiment, everyday life elements, chance, anxiety, loneliness or dehumanization. While looking for a single generational line, having support in the survey named „Hľadanie prózy“/Finding Prose, which was carried out in Kultúrny život (1967), two lines of literature have been found. On the one hand finding and testing new techniques and methods of writing and on the other hand turning to the inner world of a human, authenticity or subjectivization. The book debut Dych/Breath by Milan Zelinka has been classified in the same generation line (Peter Jaroš, Rudolf Sloboda, Pavel Vilikovský, Pavel Hrúz, Ladislav Ballek, Dušan Kužel, Vlado Bednár) for several reasons. His short stories feature notable experiment, grotesque elements, absurdity, bizarre elements, parody, comic situations in order to describe the characters, their estranged, lonely individualities, manifested in the author´s own creative gesture.
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ČLOVEK V MESTE (DEBUT DUŠANA KRAUSA ŽIVOTY UNIKAJÚCE)

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Barborík V.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2020
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vol. 67
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issue 5
448 – 466
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The paper is based on the current conception of reception of the debut novel written by Dušan Kraus (1937 – 2001) Životy unikajúce/Lives Fleeing (1979). There is genealogical and typological perspective and a literary historical perspective adopted in it, the paper offers an outline reconstruction of the literary career of a lesser-known writer. The subject of the analysis is the basic semantic layers of the work (language, narration, composition) and its genealogical and typological foundations. Within the context of prose written at that time, the novel is a specific piece of writing placed outside the established development lines. It is incompatible with what was introduced by the „novel situation“ at the turn of the 1980s, it is a work of production prose, while it is not influenced by ideological requirements, it is a contemporary piece of prose which was published at the time when Slovak literature was being dominated by past-bound works. Životy unikajúce/Lives Fleeing as a production or, alternatively, „work“ novel is an unusual variant of the subgenre in Slovak literature. In terms of evolution, it is situated somewhere halfway from the ideologically biased depiction of the work environment in the 1950s towards subversive recoding of the subject matter in the second half of the 1980s (in the works of the writers such as Peter Pišťanek and Dušan Taragel).
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POLEMIKA O ANJELSKÝCH ZEMIACH AKO LITERÁRNOHISTORICKÝ PROBLÉM

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Matejovič P.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2013
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vol. 60
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issue 5
359 – 370
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The subject of the study is an analysis of historiographic position of Jozef Felix´s article published in 1946 O nové cesty v próze alebo problém „anjelských zemí“ v našej literatúre (After New Ways in Prose or the Issue of „Angel Lands“ in Our Literature) and the polemic it caused at that time. The author focuses on revealing the reasons which allowed Slovak Marxist literary historiography to label Felix´s article as the starting point when Slovak after-war prose „definitely leant towards“ Socialist Realism. The author opposes this literary-historical construct by claiming that Felix´s article and the related polemic were a part of the argument about what is modern in the Slovak literature in 1946, and not a part of the argument between the Modern Slovak literature and the Literature of Socialist Realism. The latter argument arose only subsequently and it was prompted by the political situation in Czechoslovakia in 1948.
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POVEDAŤ VIAC (SEBA-KONŠTRUKCIA: PODOBA V. ŠIKULU V AUTOBIOGRAFICKÝCH TEXTOCH)

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Barborík V.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2013
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vol. 60
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issue 3
209 – 232
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The study deals with the autobiographical writings by the Slovak prose writer Vincent Šikula. It tracks the development and the contemporary transformations of the author´s self-image from the beginning of his career as a writer in the 1960s until the end of his life in 2001. It builds on widely available sources, i.e. Šikula´s non-fiction writings of memoir nature, such as reflections on him and the others, biographical sketches, essays, the answers in interviews, articles and surveys and so on. The author approaches them as a Modern subjective and therefore biased representation. The individual phases of his creative life show that Šikula saw his past and present in different ways. The form of his self-presentation was defined by the inner, in the course of time changing motivations and ambitions that is the efforts to take a certain place in the contemporary literary and public cultural environment, as well as the outer conditions and constraints, which underwent changes, too. Šikula began to create his own „portrait of the artist“ meant for the public as early as he embarked on his career as a writer in the mid-1960s, then in the following two decades he presented his modified version adjusted to the times, and in the period of time after the year 1990 the image became somehow completed and after his death definite. However, none of the depictions of his life in any of the periods of time mentioned contradicts what he had said about himself previously or would say later, the individual versions of him did not rule out the others, although in each of them he placed weight on a different aspect of his writer life.
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RIVERS OF BABYLON – POSTMODERNÝ BILDUNGSROMAN, ROMÁN KONCA DEJÍN

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Taranenková I.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2018
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vol. 65
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issue 3
183 - 197
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The paper interprets the novel Rivers of Babylon (1991) by Peter Pišťanek in the context of the postmodernism analysis by Frederick Jameson and the statements on the End of History by F. Fukuyama. It does not reconstruct only the reception of the novel but also the period discussions about the stratification of the genres of contemporary Slovak prose, which was conditioned by challenging historicity as well as historical awareness. The novel by P. Pišťanek is characterized here as a text which in the context of period Slovak literature manifested the attributes of postmodernism in the way they were defined by F. Jameson in his book Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) – these include „historical deafness“, „depthlessness“, „waning of effect“, as well as postmodern irony created in the form of pastiche. At the same time it also thematizes the situation of Slovak society at the moment of the political transformation when the structures of the old system are collapsing and a new one is being established. This is the moment which defines the modification of the genre structures of the novel which control the central syuzhet line of the novel linked to the protagonist, Rácz. Pišťanek´s text can be regarded as a travesty of Bildungsroman, based on a story of integrating in society, on accepting the state of the world. In this case the integration of the protagonist takes place in the era of „End of History“, the loss of trustworthiness of any norms. In the novel there are parallels in Fukuyama´s reflections on society after the End of History, especially in those points that do not sound so triumphant or optimistic as their fundamental proposition, saying that what will stir the social process is the struggle for recognition. In these moments the central theme of the novel can be interpreted in the context of Hegel´s master-slave dialectic.
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OPIS A PERFORMANCIA AKO ZÁKLADNÉ MODALITY REPREZENTÁCIÍ V PAMÄŤOVÝCH NARATÍVOCH (NA PRÍKLADE TEXTOV ALTY VÁŠOVEJ)

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Prušková Z.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2021
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vol. 68
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issue 1
40 – 52
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The subject of the paper is to observe a coincidence between description and performance in autobiographic narratives. As an example, this phenomenon is traced in autobiographic writings by the Slovak prose writer Alta Vášová (1939), produced between the years 1995 and 2019. Her prose works Úlety/Flights of Fancy, Ostrovy nepamäti/Islands of Non-memory, Sfarbenia/Colorations, Menoslov/Name List, Dolety a Odlety/Ranges and Departures feature a strange type of memoir writing, which points to a certain general semiotic property of autobiographic memoir narration. From the semiotic, referential and stylistic points of view, this type of writing is part of latent discussion on the nature of creative work with a literary text at the level of basic stylistic and composition techniques of epic: description, narration and performative perspective of narrative representations. The paper is an attempt at presenting their mutual coincidence, inseparability and poetological scaling in Alta Vášová´s memoir writing. It also raises the question of performative and descriptive modality of recollecting (as a substitute of culture and history) in memoir writing.
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TELLING OF ORDINARY OR STORIES OF LONG DURATION (HISTORICAL PROSE OF JOZEF HORAK, MARGITA FIGULI AND LUDO ZUBEK)

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Bilik R.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2008
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vol. 55
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issue 5
317-347
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Presented study is an interpretation of key Slovak literary pieces of historical genre written in 40-tieth and the first half of 50-tieth of the 20th c. Particularly there are a novel 'Zlate mesto' (Golden City) by J. Horak, M. Figuli's 'Babylon' and a novelette 'Skryty pramen' (Hidden Resource) by L. Zubek. Those three publications help to present the fact, that historical genre is based on ambivalence of event and duration. Historical event is not in the centre like dynamic sujet event but everyday human life is like natural foundation of that event. The archetypal conventions of myth represent a leading element of that structural setting. Reading of Horak's and Figuli's novels and the novelette of L. Zubek showed that through those works aesthetically problematic line in the history of historical genre in Slovak prose has been extended. The novels are in connection with mythically pragmatic line. Contra-factual influence against contemporary socially political situation was a part of their reception meaning. It is an extension of the line on the beginning of which J. M. Hurban stood and which continued in the period between the World War I and World War II through the historical novels of Martin Kukucin and Martin Razus. Participation of the prosaic works studied in that article shows in both mentioned above lines specifics of time, in which they were written as well as specific functions, which appear always in connections with historical genre, when texts written in that genre appears in the contemporary literary life in the centre of attention.
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