Slovenská literatúra vo vydaniach Družstevnej práce
Slovak Literature in the Publications of Družstevní Práce

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to the Slovak production of the Czech publishing house Družstevní práce (DP) and evaluates its importance in promoting the Slovak book and strengthening Czech-Slovak cooperation in the interwar period. Against the chronological background of published Slovak titles and on the basis of archival sources and period journalism, it presents its publishing strategies, its communication with authors and artists, and also the successes and problems DP encountered in purveying Slovak books. It outlines the beginnings of Slovak production and the later orientation towards the Slovak social novel and the collaboration with Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé, Milo Urban, Peter Jilemnický, Fraňo Kráľ, Zuzka Zguriška and Emil Boleslav Lukáč. It shows how thoroughly DP approached the publishing of Slovak publications, be it in terms of its cooperation with Slovak artists, its consistent preservation of the Slovak language, its selection of paper, or the printing and proofreading at the Bratislava printing house. At the same time, the paper maps how DP managed to promote Slovak books and authors abroad by means of its good contacts.

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