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In the era of globalisation, integration within the European Union and blending of cultures, universal (international) themes in schools’ humanities curricula are accompanied by topics that take into account the specifi c nature of psychological and social identities. Such books undoubtedly include Tomek Tryzna’s Panna Nikt [Miss Nobody]. In addition to universal problems which adolescent girls have to deal with – self-discovery and search for one’s own identity – what makes the book interesting and noteworthy is also the fact that it tackles the sociological context in Poland and explores the still existing – even after the country’s accession to the united Europe – social and cultural differences between rural and urban areas. The protagonist of the novel– the teenager Marysia – is one of the many types of adolescent girls in literature and as such is an excellent subject of school discussions about growing up.
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Timrava´s work is the perfect example of the acceleration of thematic and poetic tendencies in Slovak literature of the late 19th century. The writer adopts a polemic-opposing provocative attitude towards the well-established Post-Romantic patterns. The autobiographical novella Skúsenosť (Experience, 1902) represents a modern literary attitude through extending literary possibilities of revealing human psyche in crisis situations. The novella has the basis in the experiences of the main character called Martina, who comes to the town of Vodňany to work as widow Bukovičová´s companion. What the young writer expected from the new environment was a warm welcome, meetings with nationally conscious people, especially poet Javor (P. O. Hviezdoslav), who is the widow´s relative. However, the small town gave her quite a shock confronting her with hypocrisy, malice, superficiality, and its image was totally different from that based on the heroine´s naive expectations. Timrava used the large-scale novella to make Martina go through a great disappointment over Bukovičová as well as her national idols – this ordeal is also a journey of self-discovery, though. What is modern in this novella is not only the negativity of experience and the destruction of the writer´s self-portrait, it is also the positivity of creative self-affirmation, realization of one´s own value and justification of the creative identity after her text was censored in the Slovenské pohľady.
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