Zobrazenie neľahkého osudu Slovákov na Žitnom ostrove v trilógii Ivana Habaja Kolonisti
The image of the not easy fate of the Slovaks on the Rye Island in the trilogy of Ivan Habaj Kolonisti (Colonists)

Summary/Abstract: The paper points to the literary image of the everyday life of Slovaks in southern Slovakia. However, this Rye Island existence is panhuman – even determinative – behind historical events of the turbulent 20th century. In the monumental (up to nine hundred pages) and in an artistically strong way, the trilogy (and hence the paper) describes the complicated (and not always idyllic) coexistence of Slovaks and Hungarians in this space-time: their problems, conflicts, desires and expectations. The metatext also gradually introduces the broader scope of Ivan Habaj’s biobibliography and him as an important author of the ˊSlovak Southˊ in the cross-section of the specifics of his continuous literary work. Emphasis is placed on his ˊemblematicˊ trilogy Kolonisti (Colonists), which provides a cross-section of the time, surroundings and characters of chronotope. It is also mentioned by various literary-critical responses to origins, using both analysis and synthesis. Thanks to the gradually applied interpretative objective- subjective approach to prototexts, the perceptive reader can learn about the troubled fate of Slovak colonists who during the difficult historical periods of 1918, 1938, 1945, 1965... lived (and metaphorically still live) their not easy life in this corner of our homeland.

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