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The novel Víťazný pád ([The victorious fall] 1929) is the last work in the first phase of the oeuvre of the Slovak writer of Czech origins, Peter Jilemnický (1901 – 1949). Literary historiography has most often discussed the novel in the context of Slovak interwar fiction primarily in relation to expressionism and the lyricisation of prose. The paper focuses on the transformation of the main character as the determining element in the development of the plot and on spatial contrasts in the novel. It identifies the plane of the material world, through which the author reflects the social tragedy of life in the Slovak region of Kysuce, and the plane of the imaginative world, represented especially by the main character Maťo Horoň. With regards to the imaginative world, the article proposes the hypothesis that the novel’s poetics has ties with the aesthetics of Czech poetism. The novel was written between 1925 and 1926, a period that witnessed an ongoing debate about the suitability of the poetic programme as blueprint for art and literature for the new society. The article views the novel as a transitional work in the development of the author’s poetics.
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Margita Figuli (1909 – 1995), one of the leading Slovak women writers of the interwar period, is best known for her acclaimed novel Tri gaštanové kone (Three chestnut horses, 1940). At the time of its publication, her prosaic debut, the less widely popular collection of novellas Pokušenie (Temptation, 1937), also received favourable reviews. The period critics appreciated her ability to express emotionality and thematise the conflicting emotional and physical aspects of love as well as the stylistic qualities of her prose. Not so much attention was paid to the progressive ideological frame in which she focused on the role women played in a period when the society was looking for the meaning of life of the modern human being. Her debut collection presented her vision of the development of women who attempted at embracing their own potential. The texts advocate the value of women in the context of modernising efforts and emancipation movement of the 1930s. The article analyses Figuli’s novellas in the context of her journalism published in the women’s magazine Živena that thematises the “eternal woman” in the new era.
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