SLOVENSKÉ ZEMIANSTVO V REŠTAVRÁCII. HISTORICKÉ UDALOSTI V POZADÍ ROMÁNU JÁNA KALINČIAKA

• Authors: Demmel Jószef

Title variants

EN

Slovak gentry in Reštavrácia (County elections). Historical events in Ján Kalinčiak’s novel

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The article analyses the novel Reštavrácia ([County elections], 1860) by Ján Kalinčiak (1822 – 1871) through the prism of historical documents. The novel takes as its basis the historical events of 1845 – 1846 election campaigns in the Turiec County. The article identifies the historical figures on which the novel’s characters were built. Such reading of this literary work is not methodologically inappropriate – the elections had a significant bearing on the future events connected with historical events central to the building of the Slovak nation and identity. The analysis provided in the article helps understand the historical circumstances and the context of Slovak national revival of the 1860s and 1870s. This referential reading also helps clarify and revaluate Ján Kalinčiak’s position on the matter. At the same time, it provides one of the backgrounds for the literary reading of the novel.

Keywords

EN

JÁN KALINČIAK; TURIEC COUNTY; SLOVAK GENTRY; REFERENTIAL READING

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 388 – 401

Contributors

author

Demmel Jószef

• Historický ústav SAV, v. v. i., Klemensova 19, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0780-6480

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2022.69.4.6