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TO THE BEGINNINGS OF MARGITA FIGULI'S PROSE WORK 'PIESEN OTROKOV' (THE SONG OF SLAVES)

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Sutovec M.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

2007

vol. 54

issue 3

179-195

The article analyses and interprets the first published piece of literary prose by the Slovak author Margita Figuli. Its aim is to investigate and determine the prose's genre, thematic and semantic structure, as well as to establish its aesthetic and historical value. The methods and procedures used in the study derive primarily from the methodological tradition of Slovak and Czech structuralism. They represent a further development of those semiotic research principles and methods, which the author defined on a theoretical level and put to practice in his books 'Romany a myty' (The Novels and myths) (1982) and 'O epickom diele' ( On epics) (1999). The plot of the novelette 'Piesen otrokov' ( The song of slaves) (1930) is rooted in the popular literary tradition of adventure calendar fables, which were based on the genre of the historical legend. Into a neo-romantic interpretation of the story of family revenge, which is modulated as 'high' on the level of language and style, the author inserts social motives in a naive manner. The resulting text and its semantic ambiguity are therefore the result of an artificial contamination of several different paradigmatic sources: 'low' genre base, 'high' verbal presentation, and a naive interpretation of fragments of utopian social beliefs and ideologies of the time. The analysis of the novelette's characters, topos and several key points of the plot shows a number of semantic contradictions as well as incoherencies in the plot and composition. These are partly attributable to a writer still learning her craft, but also point to some longer term characteristics of Figuli's writing, which can be detected also in the literary prose of her mature and classical periods. The study of 'Piesen otrokov' demonstrates how from the very start of Figuli's career her writing contained assumptions about the elementary and leading role of genetic determination and implications that her characters' actions were 'naturally' predestined in certain different ways, so that different ideologies (ethical, social, religious) gain precedence over those features of the plot which might be generated by substance, characters and surroundings.

'BLUT UND BODEN' IN BOTH SLOVAK AND FEMININE LANGUAGES (THREE EARLY PROSES OF MARGITA FIGULI)

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Sutovec M.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

2007

vol. 54

issue 6

417-428

The study is an analysis and interpretation of three short stories relating to the early creative period of Margita Figuli –' Vo vlnach Oravy' (In the waves of Orava River) (1931), 'Syn' ( Son) (1933) and 'Zem' (Earth) (1934). They were published as a changed version in a new collection of the stories 'Mamivy dusok' (Specious Taste) in the first volume of the Collected works of Margita Figuli in 1972. They are prose on the subject of rural environment and the theme of fatal relationship of a farmer to his 'land'. The author studies mainly the problem how this relationship in particular texts epically generates through plot and roles of female characters in it. In the short stories from 1931 the farmer hero had left his land because of his love to a woman and then he tragically died in the river rafting logs down the river. The analysis shows that conceptually the text is constructed in a way the balladic end manifested direct epic and semantic consequence of relational rupture to the tradition toward 'land'. Psychologically more complicated short story from 1933 bears as a theme instinct of keeping family and administration of property as moving power influencing the acting of a main hero instinctively and ramblingly manifested as a natural unlimited power - unlimited in a sense of social as well as the ethic limits. In the short story from 1934 a fatal bondage to his land dominates love of a farmer to woman and the love of woman is dominated by the same bondage, too. The author shows that M. Figuli had been building up the paradigmatic foundations of her works from her 'classical period' of writing earlier, in her creative early beginnings.

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TO THE BEGINNINGS OF MARGITA FIGULI'S PROSE WORK 'PIESEN OTROKOV' (THE SONG OF SLAVES)

'BLUT UND BODEN' IN BOTH SLOVAK AND FEMININE LANGUAGES (THREE EARLY PROSES OF MARGITA FIGULI)