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Magiczny cmentarz Słowacja. Powieść Dušana Mitany „Mój rodzinny cmentarz”

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Roberts D. K.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

2012

issue 2(5)

271-281

Dušan Mitana’s book My Home Cemetery (Môj rodný cintorín, 2000) is centred on banal scenes from everyday life that could happen in any Slovak village in the 1960s, such as family relations, village gossips, political and theological disputes in pubs and at home, building homes, working in a local cooperative, supporting a local football team, etc. However, the narration denies any similarity with Realism. Instead, the story is bizarre, hyperbolized, and grotesque; very much along the tradition of Magic Realism. Mitana’s writing is Postmodern; he uses different languages, genres, approaches and quotations in his book. Cemetery in Mitana’s story is both space and place; it is both pars and totum; it is one (real/fictional) cemetery and entire Slovakia. Even though this cemetery is situated on the outskirts of the village, it is the centre (navel); its eccentric location is a song of human disrespect towards eternity. Besides being the centre, the cemetery is also a middle world where reality meets fi ction, banal meets high, fl esh meets spirit, Christianity meets paganism, banal everyday routines mix with dreams, visions and prophecies, and those who are alive coexist happily with those who are dead. It is also a nodal point between past and (Messianic) future, since it is the home place of the writer himself, and this writer is a Slovak writer. Whereas the writer has a mission to revive the dead by weaving stories about them, his nation’s mission is to spread the Slovak word in the world. In this way, Mitana’s book also mocks manifestations of Slovak nationalism in the 1990s, which was still partially using concepts and rhetoric of Romantic Messianism.

Milczące cmentarze Pragi

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Sosnowska D.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

2012

issue 2(5)

127-143

The article discusses the semiotics of Prague cemeteries as well as their role in Czech culture against the backdrop of the cultural role of cemeteries in Central Europe. Prague cemeteries are silent as their presence in the memory and life of Czechs is much less noticeable than one would have assumed it should be as resulting from the 19th century patriotic concepts which accompanied the establishment of national cemetery, the magnifi cence of funeral ceremonies of the time and the signifi cance of necropolises cultural heritage. The Czech way of commemorating the dead personages of cultural merit is naming after them public institutions rather than visiting the graveyard and perceiving thecemetery as an institution of memorialising national history. The refl ection on the cultural role of Prague cemeteries is more often present in Czech literary works than in scientific studies on Czech culture. This peculiar indifference is characteritic of Czech mentality, even though the determining factors to create Prague cemetery did not distinguish Czechs from the nations of Central Europe – national revival and national mythology together with the change in perceiving the cemetery in the urban organism.

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2 Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

1 Roberts D. K.

1 Sosnowska D.

2 2012

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Magiczny cmentarz Słowacja. Powieść Dušana Mitany „Mój rodzinny cmentarz”

Milczące cmentarze Pragi