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In 1968 a literary critic Štefan Drug was commissioned to take a part in an exhibition covering Slovak literature since the beginning to contemporary times. He prepared a period of interwar literature which had been a matter of numerous deformations during 1950s and partly 1960s, however, he presented the period with respect to its variety and aesthetic achievements. Eventually it became a precise and concise outline of literary history, probably the most precise one at that time. Drug used to his advantage the form of an exhibition so he can make the presentation not only vivid but also flexible with latest available sources of research. In the outline he was able to return some authors banned from official literature and correct the image of others that had been altered in favour of political engagement of the Communist establishment. Even nowadays, fifty years from the exhibition itself, Drug’s outline is an example of deep understanding of the Slovak literature written in the interwar period, with only minor corrections needed.
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The paper summarizes Štefan Drug´s activities at the Jagellonian University in Krakow between the years 1969 and 1974, where he worked as the first lecturer of Slovak language and literature. The new course of Slovak studies was established in Krakow in 1968 thanks to Danuta Abrahamowicz (1937 – 1995). Štefan Drug was not only involved in the pedagogical activities but also in promoting Slovak culture and literature in Poland, developing the mutual Slovak-Polish relations as well as translating activities. He formed the generation of the first Polish Slovak language experts.
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The literary historian and critic Štefan Drug (1931 – 2011) began his science career in the year 1955 at the Institute of Slovak literature, Slovak Academy of Science. He was a lecturer of Slovak literature and culture at the Jagellonian University in Krakow between the years 1969 and 1974. At the time of normalization he could not work in the academic environment for political reasons, so he found a job as an editor of the publishing house Tatran (1974 – 1989). He did not return to his scientific work until the social and political changes in 1989: he dealt with Slovak literature of the 20th century, especially the issues of literary life, at the Institute of Slovak literature, Slovak Academy of Science, between the years 1990 and 2006. At that time he helped remove the distortions in the history of Slovak literature and rehabilitate then-proscribed authors (e.g. Valentín Beniak). Despite the forced break due to the political circumstances, Štefan Drug´s lifelong literary and historical work features a continuous interest in interwar leftist avant-garde, left-wing literature of the 1920s and the 1930s, in the DAV group and the life stories and works of its most significant representatives, namely Laco Novomeský and Vladimír Clementis. The paper built on archive materials shows how Štefan Drug was confronted with the period ideological apparatus.
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The paper is written in the form of comments on the book DAV a davisti /DAV and Davists by Štefan Drug. Within the purview of the author´s chronological reconstruction of how the magazine DAV was published, the author makes an attempt to follow the linear time axis, from which he choose several key moments. These are marginally confronted with the contemporary reader´s perspective. It shows that the character of the historical overview of the individual volumes enters into the relationship with the up-to-date literary and historical premises. Despite the historical determinations the key point in the present paper lies in reading Štefan Drug. It is dominated by the view of revealing the author´s open as well as concealed assessments of the contributions to this interwar social and cultural periodical. What is even more significant in the paper is his stated effort to adopt the documentary approach to the individual volumes and editions of the magazine. Štefan Drug uses them to summarize a number of the topics and goals of the whole DAV group, which can be seen from the contemporary viewpoint as one of the ways how to at least partly ensure them a more adequate place in the interwar Slovak cultural and social life.
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