Konflikt oficiálnej a ľudovej medicíny v timraviných novelách „Ťapákovci” a „Skon Paľa Ročku”
The Conflict between the Official and the Folk Medicine in Timrava's Novels "Ťapákovci" (The Ťapák Family) and "Skon Paľa Ročku" (The Death of Paľo Ročka)

Summary/Abstract: The author has chosen a non-usual point of view to examine the two short stories indicated in the title. She states her motives by saying that this is the conflict the subject-matters of the novels are built around. She dismembers her message in compliance with the pattern used when writing down people’s healing: she characterizes the specialists of the two strata of healing who also appear in the two writings, describes the protagonists’ diseases and their reasons, the ways the diseases are tried to heal, and the way the protagonists take them. The short story Skon Paľa Ročku also affords her the opportunity to analyse the narrow and wide milieu’s Christian ethics-based attitude to the protagonist’s illness that ends in death.

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