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One of the most signifi cant Slovak romantic poets, Janko Kráľ (1822-1876), was buried in an unknown place, however today he has a symbolic grave in the Slovak National Cemetery in Martin. In this case we may speak of a peculiar irony of fate, because the vision of the world as a grave is central in his work, especially in the poetic cycle known as Dráma sveta (Drama of the World). More intensive analysis of this theme reveals author’s deep involvement in gnosticism on the one hand, and a Christian worldview on the other. Kráľ uses the grave in its extremely negative aspects to illustrate the condition of the modern man, which in his historiosophy project is determined by a temporary victory of evil. The article describes the way of escape from negativity based on the Christian faith in the Resurrection, which is contaminated by the pagan vision of nature and the 19th century myth of Slavic revival. The grave in the author’s interpretation is the metaphor of the modern world. Therefore, special attention is given to the theme of grave as a specifi c variant of the labyrinth. There is the seed of the tree of life hidden in the centre of the labyrinth-grave. In Kráľ’s vision the seed is the Slovak language/ Slovakia. Following that implication, the grave conceals the Garden of Eden.
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The idea of new beginning in the Slovak vision of history from the mid-19th centuryThe point of this paper is to show that the idea of new beginning was clearly present in mid-19th century Slovak literature. This idea became the means of conveying revisions of Slovak history. It was also a sign of a deep cultural change, resulting from factors including secularisation and the influence of nationalist ideology. The direction of change can be observed in selected works by Janko Kráľ, Viliam Pauliny-Tóth, and Jonáš Záborský. These writers challenge the optimistic view of the world by seeing in it a fundamental mistake that needs to be corrected. They propose correcting the myth of origin (Christian, national), but on the basis of a hermetic paradigm (magic and/or gnosis). Thus they create a false dimension of transcendence that becomes the foundation of the “new era”. Idea nowego początku w słowackich wizjach dziejów z połowy XIX wiekuArtykuł poświęcony jest kwestii obecności w literaturze słowackiej idei nowego początku, wyraźnie pojawiającej się w historiozoficznych projektach z połowy XIX wieku. Choć w kulturze słowackiej idea ta pojawia się w obszarze oddziaływania idei odrodzeniowej, w istocie niesie ze sobą alternatywne treści. Będąc znakiem głębokich zmian kulturowych związanych m.in. z sekularyzacją i nasilaniem się tendencji nacjonalistycznych, idea nowego początku w kontekście słowackim staje się nośnikiem znaczeń rewizyjnych, a zarazem kamieniem węgielnym modernistas. Różne jej warianty odnaleźć możemy w wybranych utworach Janka Kráľa, Viliama Pauliny-Tótha, Jonáša Záborskiego. Wskazani pisarze, zakwestionowawszy optymistyczną wizję świata, zaproponwali nowe warianty mitu początku (chrześcijańskiego, narodowego) oparte na paradygmacie hermetycznym (magicznym i/lub gnostycznym). Wykreowany przez nich nowy początek okazuje się jednakże ofiarować fałszywy wymiar transcendencji. Sam w sobie wykazuje cechy eklektycznej ideowej hybrydy, znamionuje podmiotowość jeszcze słabo ukonstytuowaną, lecz wyraźnie aspirującą do zmiany swego statusu ontologicznego.
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The interest in Black Romanticism has been experiencing a kind of renaissance in the last years. Black Romanticism is no longer seen as just one of the Romantic movements. Its connection to the particular historical moment is becoming looser and looser and the set of its distinctive features, which can be easily recognized, makes it possible to see it as the sui generis category. The increasing number of various scientific works confirms the fact that in the case of fascination by the mysterious, unchained and dark side of being we face a weightier phenomenon than just a fashion in culture. The Black Romanticism category enables to grasp and reveal a number of cultural, literary and linguistic phenomena which have been resistant to all the attempts to systematize Slovak artistic production stemming from the spiritual and aesthetical atmosphere of Romanticism. The material of the Slovak resources makes it possible to almost completely reconstruct the Imaginarium of Black Romanticism including the vampires, who inhabit it, the frenetic concept of man, the demonic face of nature and history, the Gothic scenery, the original evil principle, which has infected the world, the inexpressibility problem and the subsequent language experiment, the artistic outsidership or weird folkiness.
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