OD VONKAJŠIEHO VYMEDZENIA K VNÚTORNEJ DIFERENCIÁCII (POZNÁMKY K UTVÁRANIU PRIESTORU V SLOVENSKEJ LITERATÚRE)
FROM OUTSIDE THE DEFINITION OF INTERNAL DIFFERENTIATION (NOTES TO THE CREATION PROCESS IN THE AREA OF SLOVAK LITERATURE)

Summary/Abstract: In literary texts, space has a varying degree of importance and as a semantic component of the work – unlike other semiotic systems (film) – it can be absent or be presented only in the abstract, grammatical form (it is the quality of space generated by language – e.g., by local adverbs). It may however have a concrete shape referring to reality. The study seeks to outline one of the developmental tendencies of creating space in the Slovak literature from the mid 19th century through the end of the 20th century. It is running from the definition of itself within the space, i.e., from the semiotic appropriation of the country through the concrete, geographical realities represented by proper names (J. M. Hurban), through the relatively general abstract concept of the semiotic Slovakia, Slovakia as a unity, presented by, e.g., the Realistic fiction. The opposite of the unifying tendencies is the tendency toward the regional (F. Hečko) or local concretism (as demonstrated in the production of the generation of writers emerging in the 1960s), to the intrinsic, memory-inspired subjective landscape which, however – contrary to the Symbolism – contains a great degree of empirical uniqueness. in particular, the study observes the tendency in the work of Pavel Vilikovský. In short, the outlined developmental pattern could be defined as progressing from the definition through unification to diversification.

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