Človek pred aj za literatúrou (v koncepcii Vladimíra Petríka)
The Human in front of and behind Literature (in Vladimír Petrík´s Conception)

Summary/Abstract: This paper characterizes Vladimír Petrík as a literary critic and a literary historianwith a humanistic orientation. Petrík´s all-life interest in literature is predominantlyseen here as an interest in the human who produces literature and who it is meant for.This is also why Petrík preferred human reader´s empathy to a strict scientific methodologyin order to approach literature. The study searches for such manifestationsof Petrík´s humanocentric conception of literature, especially for those in his bookof memoir dialogues with Vladimír Barborík, which was published under the title ofHľadanie minulého času/In Search of the Past Time. In that book Petrík authenticallydepicts literature, men of letters and literary life of his times and that way also speaksindirectly of himself, especially as a perceptive, well-wishing as well as gently ironicobserver of the literary world.

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