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AN EDUCATION VIA MEMORY (LADISLAV BALLEK: 'JUZNA POSTA' /SOUTHERN POST/ )

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Barborik V.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

2006

vol. 53

issue 1

11-23

The study deals with a collection of short stories 'Juzná posta' (Southern Post, 1974), written by Slovak prose author Ladislav Ballek. Interpretation is based on an assumption of mutual and strong coherence between all the stories. All of them are interweaving into a consistent epic work. The message of each of them exceeds intention of autonomous story. A child protagonist Ján Jurkovic is an important unifying element of the book. He is attracted by unknown, strange world of grown-ups. In most of the stories he is more than an observer, he is a person involved. But everything he can perceive from seeing and listening becomes a part of his private 'novel of education'. Though narration he also adopts some aspects of author's narrative form, the perspective is partly personalised - adapted to the child hero. The narrator uses a double perspective keeping both naturalness of the child's view and it's correction through eyes of an adult. Reminiscent modality is typical for the short stories of 'Juzná posta'. A hidden story - the story of human memory- in the Ballek's book is developed concurrently with the plots subordinated to explicit conveyed themes. The narrative cycle uses different generic bases. It is a characteristic transformation of the 'novel of education' and there are also elements of adventurous reading and generic structure of a story with a secret. An important structural element of the work is its country-space plan and geographical orientation. The location of south, also stressed by the title, bears its own culture and it serves also as a specific literary symptom. The character of countryside differs from the traditional vertical concept of literary topography of Slovakia, developed and petrified from the period of Romanticism, for which rigorous, monumental, ascetically cold picture of north was typical. Ballek depicts south as a place of culture, a Slovak-Hungarian boarder, formed by a man. Typical for his literary picture is a horizontal line containing sharp sensual impulses provoking mostly eyes and ears. The centre of his space in the entire book is a frontier town Palánk. The south boarder is a relatively open place where different cultural and linguistic influences merge into one another. In the context of the L. Ballek's works, 'Juzná posta' is the first book from an extensive prose cycle located to Palánk. This cycle belongs to the most important epic projects in the Slovak literature of the 70th and 80th.

The impact of different narrative perspectives on the perception of the narrating person

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Polya T.

Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)

2004

vol. 59

issue 3

377-395

The social cognition research fosters a narrative approach to several mental functions (e.g. thinking, emotion, motivation). However, unique features of a narrative structure have gained only sparse interest. This study aims at specifying the role of a narrative perspective. The study defines the concept of a narrative perspective in a life story narrative and its variations (observer, re-experiencing, experiencing narrative perspective). Following a review of the relevant narratological, discursive and psychological studies, I set up hypotheses regarding the relationship between the narrative perspective and the current state of a narrating person (namely its coherence, emotional intensity, and re-editing of past experiences). I tested these hypotheses in a social perception study. Participants (26 psychotherapists, and 61 laypersons) formed impressions about, and judged the identities of narrating persons who described important identity-related life events from one of the three different narrative perspectives. Results showed that narrative perspective had a highly significant influence on impression formation and identity judgments even when the same events were described. Narrators using the observer perspective were generally judged to be better adjusted, more socially desirable and less anxious and impulsive than were narrators describing the same events from the re-experiencing or experiencing perspectives. The results support the conclusion that the narrative perspective has a function in the emotional regulation of narrated experiences.

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AN EDUCATION VIA MEMORY (LADISLAV BALLEK: 'JUZNA POSTA' /SOUTHERN POST/ )

The impact of different narrative perspectives on the perception of the narrating person