Russ ian literature as the picture of time. Browsing the magazines Slovenské pohľady and Revue svetovej literarúry Cover Image

Ruská literatúra ako znak doby. Listovanie v časopisoch Slovenské pohľady a Revue svetovej literatúry
Russ ian literature as the picture of time. Browsing the magazines Slovenské pohľady and Revue svetovej literarúry

Author(s): Mária Kusá
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Russian literature in Slovak periodicals. Cultural situation in the 1960s and 1970s. Reception and systems of national culture.

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the reception forms of Russian literature in cultural periodicals Slovenské pohľady (The Slovak View) and Revue svetovej literatúry (The Slovak Review of World Literature) in the 1960s and 1970s. In attempting to identify and name the factors of national culture’s socio-political system that played the key role in cultural atmosphere determining the literary life, it analyses the picture/pictures of Russian literature as presented by the two magazines. To a certain degree, the research also enables setting up a periodization of the 1960s and 1970s with regard to the translations and publications of Russian literature (1960 – 1963, 1963 – 1965, 1965 – 1970/73), and specify the modes of implementing cultural and political changes into publishing reality – either by “returns” to Russian literary modernism or avant-garde, or by respective form and quality of the then literary texts reception. With both of the magazines, obvious emblematic features in publishing Russian literature have come out, clearly indicating the character and changes of their time.

  • Issue Year: III/2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 53-63
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Slovak