O kríze literatúry - Literárne dielo medzi recepciou a produkciou
On the crisis of literature - Literary work between reception and production

Summary/Abstract: The present article deals with the post of literature and literary theory in contemporary society. It focuses on the phenomenon of crisis in literature as a part of the crisis of the very society, as well as on the situation of contemporary Slovak literary theory. The topic of the article is the specifics of poetry and poetic language and reflections on the apparent incomprehensibility of poetic texts. It analyzes the peculiarity of literary fiction, such as unfinishness, silence, it means non-textual areas of literary works whose quality has an impact on the overall value of the work. In addition, it explores the thesis about ambiguity of the communication potential of apparently “non-communicative“ poetry, concentrating especially on the production of Slovak experimental poet Peter Macsovszky. The aim of this examination is to reconsider and argumentatively support the possibilities of Slovak poetry in this context.

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