Téma národného obrodenia v tvorbe Tarasa Ševčenka a Jána Kollára: prieniky a kontroverzie
National Revival in the Works of Taras Shevchenko and Ján Kollár: Overlaps and Controversies

Summary/Abstract: The paper sets a goal to find out whether Taras Shevchenko knew particular works ofJán Kollár, to point out possible contacts as well as typological overlaps between theboth writers in terms of reflecting on national revival and also to draw attention todifferences between them.The article combines the methods and techniques of comparative and historicalliterary studies and comparative and typological literary research.The comparision of the works of the two great Slavic poets has revealed certaininterrelations. It confirms that Shevchenko knew the sonnets 267 (in the original) and75 (in the Russian translation) from Kollár´s poem Slávy dcéra/The Daughter of Slavaas published in the collection by Amvrosii Metlynsky Думки і пісні та ще дещо/Thoughts and songs and some other things (Kharkiv 1839). In terms of artistic representationof national revival there are common elements as well as significant differencesin the approaches of either writer: while what Kollár had in mind was revival of Slovaksand Czechs in a wider circle of Slavic nations implementing the idea of Pan-Slavism,Shevchenko was (very probably) familiar with this conception, its echos are recordedin the dedication of the poem Єретик/ The Heretic and other of his works, what worriedhim was mainly the misery of the Ukrainian nation, which was in Imperial Russiadeprived of its own history, language, culture and any national rights in general.The gained results provide the basis for establishing the borders of assumedShevchenko´s adoption of the Czecho-Slovak revivalist´s knowledge.

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