Verwandlungen vor dem Gericht. Zur Betrachtung der Verwandlungen im Vater-Sohn-Konflikt in Franz Kafkas Erzählung Das Urteil und in Ludwig Winders Roman Die Reitpeitsche

Author(s): Jindra Broukalová / Language(s): German Issue: 01+02/2016

Die Identität des Menschen kommt in seinen Beziehungen zu anderen Menschen zum Ausdruck, durch die sie zugleich geformt wird. Es ist keine statische, sondern eine dynamische Größe, die sich im Laufe des menschlichen Lebens weiterentwickelt. Eine der stärksten, aber auch konfliktreichsten Beziehungen, die sich durch gegenseitige Liebe und Zukunftshoffnungen, aber auch durch Ausübung der väterlichen Macht und Autorität ebensowie durch Auflehnung gegen diese Autorität und durch Streben nach eigener Macht auszeichnet, ist die Vater-Sohn-Beziehung.

Naša neschopnosť vnímať hodnoty ponúkané staršou literatúrou neznamená, že ich niet

Author(s): Miloslav Konečný / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1-2/2010

The review of: Marta Keruľová: Hodnotové aspekty staršej literatúry, Filozofická fakulta UK F Nitra, 2009

Handbook of Polish, Czech and Slovak Holocaust Fiction: Works and Contexts

Author(s): Štěpán Balík,Agata Firlej,Elisa-Maria Hiemer,Jiří Holý,Hana Nichtburgerová / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2020

Tis handbook project is the result of a long-term cooperation between Polish, Czech,and German researchers in the feld of Slavic and Comparative Studies. During thelast 10 years, this team has published about a dozen books in various languages andorganized eight international workshops concerning the Holocaust in Central European literatures and cultures. Troughout these years, our team has noticed a gapbetween the literary production in countries where the Holocaust mainly took placeand their response in the non-Slavic world. For this reason, we are going to edita handbook with works originally published in Polish, Czech, or Slovak that are ofimportance not only within the context of their respective national literary traditions but also for research on Holocaust literature worldwide. Additionally, this project has been joined by Slovak researchers. Te handbook includes novels, short stories, poems and plays within the scope of 750 standard pages. Te table of contentscurrently lists 53 Polish, 41 Czech, and 22 Slovak texts. Te editors provide an introduction about the main developments of Holocaust literature in the broader contextof the countries of interest (main topics and motifs, periodisation based on politicalchanges, reception processes in national and transnational context).

Slovenská literatura „v kontaktoch“

Author(s): Lukáš Holeček / Language(s): Czech Issue: 6/2021

This paper contains book review of: Bystrzak, Magdalena, ed., Passia, Radoslav, ed. a Taranenková, Ivana, ed. Kontakty literatúry: (modely identity reprezentácie). Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo SAV, 2020. 351 stran. ISBN 978-80-224-1856-0.

Motív návratu v próze Zoltána Bárkányiho

Author(s): Katarína Maruzsová Šebová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 4/2011

The theme of returning in Zoltán Bárkányi Valkán's prose. Zoltán Bárkányi Valkán is one of the emblematic representatives of the Hungarian Slovak literature. In his short epic writings the theme of leaving is a constant element. The returning can only be examined in relation with „leaving”, departing from something important. Leaving the parental house and integration in a new environment wears out the spirit of B. Valkán's characters, and creates generational conflicts. The essay examines the role and place of national traditions in our globalizing world, by contrasting home, the individual and the whole world.

Profesorul universitar dr. Gheorghe Călin la 75 de ani

Author(s): Dagmar Maria Anoca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2010

Scientific life: Profesorul universitar dr. Gheorghe Călin la 75 de ani (Dagmar Maria Anoca)

Slovakness in the Making: The Concept of “Nation” and “National Literature” in the Works of 1930s Literary Critics

Author(s): Viliam Nádaskay / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The study outlines the opinions on and sources of the so-called Slovak question in the interwar Czechoslovak republic amongst the writings of three Slovak literary critics: Stanislav Mečiar, Andrej Kostolný and Michal Chorváth. Each author stood for a different contemporary ideology; nationalist/autonomist, Czechoslovakist and communist, respectively. The current article details the ways and reasons these critics legitimised national self-determination, whether by invoking the legacy of the national awakening and those stereotypical historical narratives of Slovak oppression, equality and fulfilment within a common Czechoslovak state, or through the idea of social revolution and stark opposition to tradition deriving from modernist distrust and a general fragmentation of the world and society. Opinions on the problem with the Slovakness of national literature are also illustrated, as well as its place within the context of world literature, including an analysis of how these ideological rivals shared certain attitudes towards the national self-determination of Slovaks, yet differed greatly in their ideas on its manifestation. On the one hand, cooperation among literary intelligentsia may be seen as an effort to remain internally united while facing an impending world war; on the other hand, it could be interpreted as another part of the ideological struggle, as the case of the famous Congress of Slovak Writers seems to demonstrate.

AVANGARDA ÎN LITERATURA SLOVACĂ

Author(s): Gheorghe Călin / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2004

Spre deosebire de ţările occidentale, de Franţa spre exemplu, unde suprarealismul pătrunsese aproape în toate ramurile culturii naţionale, în Slovacia avangarda se manifestă mult mai târziu şi aceasta ca urmare a rezistenţei cercurilor conservatoare, de stânga, care-şi publicaseră în 1934 în revista „DAV” protestul cu privire la impactul pe care suprarealismul l-ar putea avea asupra scriitorilor slovaci.

Svätý za katrem: Cesta buržoazního nacionalisty tam a zase zpátky

Author(s): Milan Ducháček / Language(s): Czech Issue: 3/2022

Through an analysis of Zdeněk Doskočil's monograph on a key period in Ladislav Novomeský’s life and work, this essay attempts to examine the possibilities and limits of biography as a historiographical genre. The author relies on attempts to reformulate biography as a distinct but traditionally convention-bound genre of “writing about the past” so as to bring it closer to what is known as contextual biography (Hans Renders, Binne de Haan). The text places Doskočil’s book among a number of other monographs published in recent years on luminaries of the Czech and Slovak Marxist intellectual elite (e.g. Zdeněk Nejedlý and Gustáv Husák). It focuses on the dilemmas faced by the author, who chooses a line of interpretation that differs from the chronological and holistic kind, as well as on the “Novomeský case”, suggesting the opportunities that can be followed up by a researcher in an endeavour to contextualize an individual “fate”. Rather than coming to specific conclusions, the text thus aims to formulate the questions that contemporary biography ought to be raising.

Niekoľko slov o poézii Valerija Kupku

Author(s): Marián Milčák / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 7/2022

ČO SA STALO (S) BÁSŇOU? (MINIMALISTICKÁ SKICA ZO SLOVENSKEJ POÉZIE)

Author(s): Marián Milčák / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 7/2022

In the article the author outlines the genesis of contemporary Slovak poetry since 1956. He presents the characteristic features of the poetics of the two most important poetic groups – the Concretists and the Lonely Runners. In the texts of Ján Stach and Ivan Štrpka he manifests differences in poetic procedures and in relation to the complexity of the world and the depicted reality. The author illustrates the consequences of depoetization in the poetics of experimental poets, which lead to hopelessness and the emptying of "creative" procedures. The method leading to a denotative experiment lacking poetic tropes and using a language that has lost, through sterilization, the ability to generate meaning and to stimulate the reading experience, has unacceptable consequences: any text broken down into verses can then become a poem. At the end of the essay, the author lists the names of poets who he considers (pars pro toto) artistically productive and whose works enrich the context of contemporary Slovak poetry.

Baladické tendencie v operných dielach slovenských skladateľov 20. storočia

Author(s): Michal Ščepán / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 02/2022

The notion of being balladic is primarily linked to the idea of an atmosphere that is the sum of tragic, dramatic, and lyrical elements. The piercing atmosphere of balladic poetry and prose inspired several composers, and the balladic phenomenon was gradually adopted not only into short vocal genres, but also into large vocal-instrumental ones, including operas. In the course of the twentieth century, several operas were composed in Slovakia, which may be termed balladic due to their specific features. This study focuses on six Slovak operas. It examines the main inspiration factors that led their composers to adopt balladic subjects. It also introduces the motifs in the original literary works that contribute to creating this phenomenon and discusses what interventions and deviations were made with respect to the original literary model while writing the opera libretto and in what way the composers worked while composing the music to achieve the set balladic character and the musical characterization of the characters and the plot.

Čo napíšem, to sa môže stať

Author(s): Viera Žemberová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2022

Review of: DZIAK, Dávid, 2021. Poď do rozprávky. Nakreslil Michal Souček. Fintice: F.A.C.E. Edícia Slniečkovo. 47 s. ISBN 978-80-89763-69-6.

Máme psa a pes má nás

Author(s): Viera Žemberová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2022

Review of: ŠIKULOVÁ, Veronika, 2021. POZOR, BODKOVANÝ PES! ILUSTROVALA OKSANA PALIV. BRATISLAVA: SLOVART. 90 s. ISBN 978-80-556-5327-3.

Hodnotové aspekty kázňovej prózy Bohuslava Tablica

Author(s): Erika Brtáňová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 6/2022

The poet, author, and Protestant priest Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1732) only published seven occasional speeches from his sermon writings. As he explained, this was due to the lowered interest of the readers in religious literature as such. Sermons that were published strongly aimed at forming the readers’ values and opinions with respect to general religious issues. Influenced by Enlightenment rationalism, Tablic focused on moral norms in his sermons. He saw the solution to the critical state of his own Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession and the loose morals of its members in a deepening of the confessional awareness of the community. He believed in a strong (supernatural) motivation of religion towards moral purity and sought the benefits of religion in spiritual unity of the society, its effective working, and quality social relations. He saw religion as a significant educational and culture-forming phenomenon. The country’s progress in Tablic’s view was to be based on active participation of morally mature and educated citizens on the religious and public life. In his sermons, like in his other writings, he is a moderate enlightened thinker and author.

Kázňová tvorba Jonáša Záborského a stratégie boja proti poverčivosti kresťanov

Author(s): Katarína Žeňuchová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 6/2022

As a priest, J. Záborský (1812 – 1876) not only delivered sermons, but was also in daily direct contact with the members of his congregation. After briefly outlining the attitudes of the society and church towards the issue of the rich and still viable system of superstitions, the article analyses Záborský’s sermons and offers a look at specific forms of everyday life in rural areas of Slovakia in the mid-19th century. The two volumes of his collected sermons came out under the title Múdrosť života ve chrámových řečech [Wisdom of life in speeches in the temple] and were published in Vienna in 1853. The texts are of high linguistic and literary value and among other things tackle social vices including superstition and spiritual limitedness of the people. Záborský criticises superstition several times in his sermons and expresses the opinion that education through the service of the word leading to an intimate knowledge of the true Christian teachings is the only way in which superstition can be uprooted. One of the sermons deals exclusively with superstition and the fact that it is widespread. The article takes this text as the basis for the analysis and in doing so provides an insight into both the “unofficial” folk beliefs rejected by the church and author’s attitudes towards the matter.

VRÁBLOVÁ, Timotea, ed.: PODOBY PRÍLEŽITOSTNOSTI V STARŠEJ SLOVENSKEJ LITERATÚRE.

Author(s): Angela Škovierová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 6/2022

Review of: VRÁBLOVÁ, Timotea, ed.: PODOBY PRÍLEŽITOSTNOSTI V STARŠEJ SLOVENSKEJ LITERATÚRE. Bratislava: Veda, 2022. 240 s.

Zviera ako nástroj v kresťansky orientovanej spirituálnej poézii

Author(s): Ján Gavura / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2023

The immediate connection between animals and humans became the basis for a long-lasting and highly structured relationship which also found its place in art and poetry. Slovak poetry uses animal elements with great intensity and variety taking into account a number of aspects: human dependency on nature as environment; the animal ancestry of humans on the one hand and exceptional qualities and faculties that distinguish humans from animals; the hierarchical ordering of the world based on the evolutionary progression leading to the superiority of the human. Examples from Slovak Christian-based spiritual poetry show that animal elements are most commonly used for defining the human character and for testing moral values. Less common, although still numerous, are poems with de-humanized depictions of people that reveal a possible crisis of an individual or of society. Spiritual poetry also reveals a hidden tension between the declared high value of nature and the inherent anthropocentrism of both art and Christian religion which outline clear hierarchies.

Vybrané reprezentácie fauny (hmyz, vtáctvo, veľryba) a človek ako „ľudské zviera“ v tvorbe Ivana Laučíka

Author(s): Matúš Mikšík / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2023

The article tackles selected representations of animals in Ivan Laučík’s (1944 – 2004) poetry. From the wide range of animals which the poet invites into his verse, it focuses on the motifs of insects, birds, and whales. In the world of Laučík’s poetry, insects serve as a litmus test for the quality and viability of an ecosystem. The poet, however, also handles insects in relation to the question of the expressive possibilities of language. Laučík’s ethical and ecological worldview also encompasses numerous motifs of birds which serve functions similar to those of insects. The motif of the whale occupies an important position in the poet’s debut collection, Pohyblivý v pohyblivom ([Mobile within mobility] 1968) and is also an indicator of how people relate to fauna and nature in general: as either conquerors or explorers. The ideal of a peaceful cohabitation of humankind with other animals can be glimpsed in Laučík’s handling of the human as a “human animal.” Such ethos can be observed both in individual poems and in the poet’s system of values in general. It accentuates an eco-friendly attitude towards nature to which the human is radically related.

Králiky vidia ružové. Svět věcí a zvířat Jozefa Mihalkoviče

Author(s): Michal Jareš / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2023

The article focuses on one of the groups of core motifs in Jozef Mihalkovič’s (b. 1935) poetry. Animals and life in the countryside in general play an important role in Mihalkovič’s verse and the poet often uses these in contrast to the world of buildings and new settlements. However, the countryside is not portrayed in an idyllic light here. On the contrary: Mihalkovič’s texts can be viewed as gripping environmental poetry. At the same time, the poet’s melancholy and nostalgia are acknowledgements of respect for nature and it is through empathy and sympathy that his early poetry resonates with his attitude towards nature. Intellectually, however, Mihalkovič tries to transfer the qualities of animals to situations that are highly unpoetic and concrete. In this way, he succeeds in creating novel connections and unexpected encounters which are frequently highly interesting. This, however, changes during the 1980s when only memories remain and pragmatic and “unpoetic” poetry in which animals are often replaced by things emerges.