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YOU ARE NEVER ALONE AS A LITERARY TRASH? (Nikdy nie si sama ako literarny gyc?)

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Matejovic P.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2009

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vol. 56

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issue 2

81-97

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The author deals with interpretation of Minac's prose 'Nikdy nie si sama' (You Are Never Alone), published in 1962. He also pays attention to wider discussion appeared in literary magazines in 1962-1963 concerning this literary double-novelette. He stressed the significance of the critical reaction of Bohus Kovac's critical achievement, which is exceptional in the historical context of the first half of the 60th. It was comparable with critical articles and polemics of Milan Hamada. Kovac pointed out a problem of genre classification of Minac's literary works, which in 50th and 60th had a form of exemplary, popular literature (tradition of literature in calendars). By this way he created a platform for overlapping of both the types of literature in the area of genre and values. The mentioned problem becomes the central theme also in the author's study. He comes out from the semiotic and cultural analyses of Umberto Ecco from the first of the 60th. They have several common parallels with Kovac's critical argumentation. The author was also inspired by the works of Czech literary theorists and historians (D. Mocna, P. Janacek). They pointed out some genre - typological similarities between Social Realism and popular literature. The author came to conclusion that Minac's double novelette 'Nikdy nie si sama' (You Are Never Alone) is a typical example of 'socialist midcult' performing mainly ideological functions, while aesthetic function was suppressed. This Minac's auctorial intention was clearly identifiable mainly in the end of his prose, in which he comes back to constructional poetics typical for the 50th. It is also the most problematic dimension of his prose. Minac attempted to make that part interesting through motifs of sentimental and erotic literature (those motifs were there to draw attention of the readers). Altogether with ideological facture those auctorial courses created a genre hybrid.

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COUNTRY AS AN ELEMENT OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF VLADIMIR MINAC

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Matejovic P.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2007

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vol. 54

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issue 4

241-254

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The article deals with a problem of self-identification in the literary works of Vladimir Minac. It comes out at two concepts of self-identification - an individual experience and a collective, confessional or national concept while the ambition is to depict it in the universal terms. The literary work of Vladimir Minac is an illustration of mutual interaction between two poles of self-identification mentioned above. Both of the poles condition each other, overlap and reshuffle depending on contemporary cultural and social context. Both aspects are not in an opposite contrary position, they complete each other dialectically. Minac comes with his own version of the 'national history' rooted in the romantic traditions. In his prosaic and essayistic works he often turns his attention to her as she means a refuge for him, his solid wall resistant against the attacks of the outer world. The country appears in many forms ('existential', 'constructional', 'romantic', 'private'), while she also represents a topically-thematic invariant placing over controversy and chaos of the people's world. The text is a part of a monograph of the literary works of V. Minac that is focused on the motif of country in his literary works.

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PETRIK ON MINAC'S BOUNDARY-LINE (COINCIDENCE AS A GENERATOR OF EVENT) (Petrik o Minacovom rozhrani (Nahoda ako generator udalosti))

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Matejovic P.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2009

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vol. 56

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issue 3

210-215

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In his contribution the author deals with the study of Vladimir Petrik dedicated to Minac/'s novelette 'Na rozhrani' (At the Boundary, 1954). Petrik's interpretation was published in 1981, that means during the 'normalisation' (1969-1989). It also predestined a character of his contemporary message. In spite of that the author considers the text to be very inspirational. He sees its key significance from the aspect of evaluation of Vladimir Minac's literary work. Petrik pointed out the ideological schematism of Minac's novelette, which was symptomatic for the socialist realism of the first half of the 50s. He also disclosed Minac's primary auctorial motivation. Petrik's attention is focused on the motif of coincidence here, respectively on the way, in which Minac makes it a part of composition in his fiction. The motif of coincidence is appeared also in his later works mainly in his belle letters from 60s. Here, Minac kept quite a critically reserved approach. The motif of coincidence is appeared in various contexts of Minac's work - once as a creative principle (generator of events), the other as an act of independent auctorial arbitrariness, which negates the art. The author points out the need of a genre pre-classification of Minac's work. In the 90s Peter Zajac drew attention to this point making also a reference to Petrik's study. Zajac found parallels in Minac's work with medieval genres (tradition of calendar literature). In this way Minac's novelette 'Na rozhrani' (At the Boundary, 1954) became a part of popular literature. In the 60s this fact was also pointed out by Bohus Kovac.

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YOU ARE NEVER ALONE AS A LITERARY TRASH? (Nikdy nie si sama ako literarny gyc?)

COUNTRY AS AN ELEMENT OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF VLADIMIR MINAC

PETRIK ON MINAC'S BOUNDARY-LINE (COINCIDENCE AS A GENERATOR OF EVENT) (Petrik o Minacovom rozhrani (Nahoda ako generator udalosti))