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The paper focuses on the literary characters named Eve in the post-war Czech literature. Eve represents according to the biblical creation myth one of the most noticeable archetypal characters, thus this name in a literary work implies the presence of the cultural tradition. On the basis of the analysis and the interpretation of the representative works (Vladimír Holan, Milan Kundera, Karel Šiktanc, Jan Balabán and other authors) the paper deals with the importance of the anthroponym in the perception of the character. The various shifts and modifications of the symbolism of the first woman and the original sin, connected to Eve, are discussed – both in the religious as well as in the profane meanings. Last but not least, the attention is paid to the literary references to the biblical Eve’s rebellion in Eden.
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The post-war situation in Slovakia required not only the solution of acute problems, but gradually issues related to the organization of the economy, its focus and management also came to the fore. In addition, food supply and solutions to a number of problems associated with the allotment system remained crucial. However, huge population movements and the associated overall changes in numbers and population structures posed an insurmountable problem for their planning. The impossibility of using the results of older population censuses, as well as the unreality of the earlier implementation of the first post-war population census, eventually led to a compromise solution in the form of a register of the civilian population in 1946. The aim of the article was to present the register in terms of its focus, methodology, preparation, course, as well as the content itself, and last but not least, we will also try to analyse some basic results.
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The paper is the first part of an intended essay on transformations (configurations and reconfigurations) of Slovak novel after year 1945. The centre of attention is genre and narrative reconfigurations in the system of poetics of artistic work in the given period of time. The paper is a part of a comprehensive team monograph project Poetika slovenskej literatúry po roku 1945 /The Poetics of Slovak Literature after 1945/. What is defining here is the optics focusing on the changed proportions in understanding of the events as a semiotic source as well as the purpose of artistic work. In the key sense, it is an extension and development of the concept of „text poetics“ (event) from its normative paradigm meaning to an ontological existentially defined syntagm of plot, motion and sharing (reading) of a text not only in the historical time and horizon but also at the level of singular poetic (narrative, genre) event of the interpretation. In the first part basic mechanisms of artistic work are defined, then wider contexts of secondary reflection are to be dealt with, and finally an exemplary interpretation of selected works of prose production written after year 1945 is planned. The vanishing point of the present paper is seeking new connections and rules in the area of poetics preliminarily defined by the ´existential´ attribute, i.e. mainly open to dynamic and ontological research into basic co-shared emotions, frenzies and trauma which, transferred into aesthetic representations, contributed to the complex one-way form of literature and art after 1945.
Vojenská história
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2019
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vol. 23
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issue 4
130 - -136
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This material deals with one of the accompanying phenomena of the post-war CS Army Command Corps staffing, which in the context of power struggle between the civilian and Communist forces underwent heavy politicization. In the case of the Army, confrontation was reflected in the fight for the form, character and political orientation of its senior command corps, with obvious gradual restriction of the influence of the commanders in favour of political entities and their nominees. In particular, this concerned the group of officers and generals holding the highest positions in the hierarchy of the Army organism. This process was closely reflected even at the nationality level of its composition, where the "Slovak issue" phenomenon in the renewed CS Army became even more pronounced. The submitted document vividly proves that the selection of the senior commander cadre of the strongest armed unit could not escape the attention of any of the political party leaders.
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After the Second World War, Bratislava underwent a radical spatial and ideological reconstruction. The reconstruction of the city was projected into poetry and its imagery in the socialist semantic code. The article focuses on the analysis and evaluation of the new meanings Bratislava as a symbolic space of historical events (and their influence on the daily life of its inhabitants) acquired during the post-war reconstruction process. The article builds on Henri Lefebvre’s thesis that states that every revolution must also alter and create its own space, otherwise it does not fully utilise its potential. Investigations into the artistic representations of Bratislava are complemented by urbanist and sociological reflections on socialist urban space, as well as semiotic works of Vladimír Macura and Daniela Hodrová. In this respect, poetic representations of Slovakia’s capital city may be divided according to three aspects: historical, reconstruction and private. These polarise the space into the city centre and periphery and recode their meanings. The image of the city is thus inclined towards a certain type of utopia – in the specific case of Bratislava it is a utopia in mid-(re)construction. Capturing the period image of the city as outlined in the 1950s poetry aims at contributing to the more complex picture of the symbolic meaning of Bratislava in the cultural memory of the 20th century.
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The Czechoslovak Republic was proclaimed in October 1918. The new state united the Czech Lands, which had relatively well developed industry and agriculture, with backward mainly agrarian Slovakia. There were already ideas of territorial or political union of Slovakia and the Czech Lands in the period before the First World War. However, there was no definite “program” by which their economic unification could be more deeply considered. The need to work out a “program” to solve the problems connected with the adaptation of Slovakia and the Czech Lands to the new conditions in the economic field were not really felt even in the period immediately after the formation of the new state. The problems that began to appear in the running of the economy were mostly attributed to the transition from wartime conditions to peace, or to faults in the work of the bureaucracy. The post-war economic crisis brought a reversal of this view. The Slovak political representatives strove to use not only parliamentary, but also other means to pursue their demands. On the initiative of Slovak political circles, the activity of chambers of commerce and industry was revived, and the Central Association of Slovak Industry and various other institutions were established. However, their legal powers were limited, and so their activities were more or less limited to solving the current operational problems.
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The aim of this study is to map the evolution of Slovak films dealing with the subject of the Holocaust and the persecution of the Jewish minority in the twentieth century. Although it zooms in on a wide range of relevant narrative (and, marginally, also documentary) films, its main focus is on the analysis of narrative films by Slovak film makers whose central theme is the Holocaust − Námestie svätej Alžbety (The Square of Saint Elizabeth, 1965), Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street, 1965), Nedodržaný sľub (Broken Promise, 2009), and Správa (The Auschwitz Report, 2020). It tries to find the sources of inspiration for these films, examines the diversions of their final adaptation from their literary bases, and ponders their place in Slovak and global cinema. It also addresses the reasons why films with this subject were absent in certain periods of post-war Slovak history.
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The return of Poles from France and Belgium was one of the most significant migratory movements in the post-war history of Poland. From the end of military operations in 1945, the communist authorities of Poland began to appeal to Poles residing in France and Belgium to return to their homeland. The aim of this article is to show, from the perspective of the Dąbek, Pawlik and Szotek families, how those returning from France and Belgium met with the realities of communist Poland. A common denominator among these three families is not only the longing for their home country, but also their decision to return under the influence of propaganda, and then a very perceptible feeling of “otherness” on their return to their home country. The feelings of “otherness” and “strangeness” through their stay on French and Belgian soil turned out to be strong enough upon their return to prevent their integration into the culture of their native country. In coming to Belgium or northern France they were called “Poles,” but upon their return, they were called “Frenchmen” by their compatriots.
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