INŽINIER RIAVA OČAMI LITERÁRNYCH KRITIKOV
ENGINEER RIAVA THROUGH THE EYES OF LITERARY CRITICS

Author(s): Kristína Krajanová
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Slovak Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: literary criticism; critical review; novel; trivial literature;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is focused on the literary interpretation of the utopian novel Inžinier Riava (1929) written by Ervin Holéczy, the peripheral Slovak writer. In this paper there are represented the opinions of the literary critics based on their critiques and reviews that were published in periodicals of those times. In this contribution there are confronted individual opinions of the literary critics amongst each other. These opinions create the image of acknowledgement of this novel by both – the critics and the readers in those times. The author of this paper summarises the opinions of literal critics and contemplates about the novel in context of so called “Trivial Literature“. The author of this paper offers the evaluation of the novel’s aesthetics and contemplates about whether this novel is rightfully placed to literary periphery and to the edge of the literary history interest.

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