"Tomášiku! – Tvoje slová nikdy nepominú..." Hymnická pieseň Hej, Slováci! v niekoľkých obrazoch
"Tomášik! – Your Words Will Never Die..." Anthemic Song Hey, Slovaks! in Several Reflexions

Summary/Abstract: The study is devoted to Samo Tomášik’s national anthemic song Hej, Slováci! [Hey, Slovaks!] with the aim to commemorate the 190th anniversary of its birth and ensuing specific existence, with the special focus on its manifold text variations, translations, adaptations and various multigenre intertextual song references of different times. It presents the manuscript of the Tomášik’s text, first publication and the further life of the Slovak song Hej, Slováci! and its Czech adaptation addressing wider ethnic entity Hej Slované! [Hey, Slavs!] in the Slovak and Czech national cultural environment. Particular textological attention is focused on the comparison of salient characteristics of Tomášik’s text in its original Slovakized Czech version, literary Slovak version and the Czech adaptation. The core of the study focused on the linguistic peculiarities of the Tomášik’s song is framed by a “poetic echo“ of its literary evocation in the poetry of P.O. Hviezdoslav and other Slovak and Czech poets dedicated to the author and his anthemic song, being the evidence of its place in broad social consciousness and in the same time strengthening and fixating it as a living part of cultural memory.

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