Starí realisti v novej republike
Old Realists in the New Republic
Author(s): Marcela MikulováSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Political history, Slovak Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: literary realism; Slovak nation; the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic; inter-war Slovak literature;
Summary/Abstract: Before 1918, Slovaks were a nation without borders, and they would therefore assert their identity mainly through language and literature. The writers from the end of the 19th century (M. Kukučín, B. Slančíková Timrava, L. Nádaši-Jégé, J. Gregor Tajovský, J. Jesenský) had to defend their positions under the difficult conditions of harsh magyarisation. Their situation changed after 1918 and this article observe show they reacted to this complicated post-war situation in terms of genres and themes,for example, in co-existence with literary and avantgarde directions. The values that the realistic authors promoted before the war became surprisingly developed under the changed political conditions. Each of them was able not only to attract readers’attention, but also to reflect on and critically depict the deformations of the new era.
Journal: Slovenský národopis
- Issue Year: 66/2018
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 340-350
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Slovak
