Razvoj i ciljevi savremene češke drame

Author(s): Miroslav Rutte / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 06-07/1934

Češko pozorište, koje je stvoreno u drugoj polovici XVIII veka, bilo je u svojim počecima sastavni deo i orudje one duhovne revolucije koja je narodu, tri stotine godina ugnjetavanom političlki, privredno, i kulturno, vratila njegovo pravo na život. Češki glumac i češki dramatičar - setimo se, naprimer, prvog narodnog dramatičara Jos. Kajetana Tila - bio je pre svega budilac: pozornica, to ie bila snaga i sugestija žive reči, koja je u narodu budila nacijonalnu samosvest, ljubav prema materinskom jeziku, odvažnost za revoluciju, i čežnju za slobodom.

MARGINÁLNE O FESTIVALE NOVÁ DRÁMA 2015

Author(s): Miroslav Balay / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 04/2015

The paper is a marginal reflexive probe into this year’s New Drama Festival (10 – 15 May 2015 in Bratislava). This festival has a unique focus on contemporary texts of the so-called new drama (of Slovak and foreign provenience). The author deals with several selected productions, thinking about their themes and unusual expression, or innovative communicativeness. He states that this year’s 11th year of the New Drama Festival was mainly a platform of new communication of theatre in the universal sense and not only a traditional, recapitulating show.

VLADIMIR VYSOCKIJ V SLOVENSKÝCH A ČESKÝCH PUBLIKÁCIÁCH

Author(s): Zuzana Spodniakova / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 02/2016

This study presents a bibliography of poem and song collections by Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (1938-1980), a Russian actor and bard from the second half of the twentieth century, and publications dealing with him published either in the Slovak or Czech language from 1980 until present. It offers a survey of the translations of particular books and examines the source texts with regard to publication tendencies and editorial context in the original literary environment. It also explores publications consisting of thematically relevant translated and original materials about Vladimir Vysotsky. It follows the dramaturgy of publications, taking into consideration the tradition of translation of Vysotsky’s poetry by Milan Dvořák and Jana Moravcová into Czech and Lýdia Vadkerti-Gavorníková, Ľubomír Feldek and Ján Štrasser into Slovak, in books compiled and edited by Milan Tokár. Although the study focuses on seminal book publications, it also touches upon important magazine and journal publications of Vysotsky’s work and texts dealing with his legacy or personality.

Komentarz do bibliografii przekładów literatury słowackiej w Polsce w 2015 roku

Author(s): Marta Buczek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The author of the article considers the latest translations of Slovak literature in Poland in 2015. Among very well‑known and valued Slovak authors whose translations have been published recently are contemporary and modern authors of the younger generation (Pavol Rankov, Peter Krištúfek, Maroš Krajňak, Jana Beňová) and the older generation (Pavel Vilikovský, Daniela Kapitáňová). Their books were very well received by Polish recipients and it occurs that Slovak literature in Poland is read with steadily growing interest. The article concerns the Polish translations of Slovak poetry as well. The survey shows a decreasing number of translations of this kind of literature.

Tłumacze literatury polskiej w świetle „Słownika słowackich tłumaczy literatury pięknej XX wieku”

Author(s): Zuzana Pojezdalová / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The first part of the “Dictionary of Slovak Literary Translators of the 20th Century” was published in 2015. It is a tremendous step forward in Slovak translation studies. The first part of the dictionary includes 25 translators from the Polish language; seven of them deal exclusively or predominantly with the translation of Polish literature. These seven translators are discussed in this paper in more detail.

Slávnostná prednáška pri príležitosti udelenia Medzinárodnej ceny SAV 2017

Author(s): Joanna Goszczyńska / Language(s): Slovak,Polish Issue: 5/2017

Within the context of reflection on her own research into Slovak culture of the 19th century the author of the paper draws attention to the essential areas of her interest in her scientific projects: the myth of the folk hero Jánošík, the issue of Messianism, the issue of the historical mission of the Slovak nation and its narrative form. This is where she comes to the conclusion that certain simplification, silence and superficial perception have made the paradigm of 19th-century Slovak literature lean, while its precious universality was often overlooked in the name of its specific nature. For instance, the rehabilitation of Messianism reviews the opinion as to the provincial character of Slovak culture to a certain extent and situates it nearer the European universe. The multi-layer nature of the national identity discourse points out to the participation of Slovaks in the national political relations.

Milo Urban’s Journalist Writing and Memoirs on the Theme of the Holocaust (in Slovak literature)

Author(s): Karol Csiba / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2017

Csiba Karol, Milo Urban’s Journalist Writing and Memoirs on the Theme of the Holocaust (in Slovak literature). “Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne” 12. Poznań 2017. Publishing House of the Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, pp. 47–60. ISSN 2084-3011. The article discusses selected texts of different genres by Milo Urban (1904–1982). The first text level is represented by fragments from his memoirs written in the 1970s and only published in the 1990s. An analysis of Urban’s journalistic activities during the Second World War provides us with another point of view. The article wishes to show different language versions elaborated by one author when dealing with one particular historical moment (the solution of the Jewish question and the Holocaust). This points at a significant change in Urban’s attitude to historical tragedies of the 20th century, and raises the question about a personal tragedy of an individual as well as his ability to cope with guilt and responsibility.

Forgotten Prosaic Works (Forming a Literary Image of the Holocaust in Slovak Literature of the 1940s and 1950s)

Author(s): Dana Hučková / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2017

Hučková Dana, Forgotten Prosaic Works (Forming a Literary Image of the Holocaust in Slovak Literature of the 1940s and 1950s). “Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne” 12. Poznań 2017. Publishing House of the Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, pp. 153–166. ISSN 2084-3011. The iconography of the Holocaust in Slovak literature between the late 1940s and mid-1950s was also created by texts that are almost forgotten today. The article discusses prosaic works by two Slovak writers. Some of these works belong to the early period of the Holocaust reception and some of them originated later. Literary history paid little or no attention especially to older works. One of the writers discussed in the article, Hela Volanská, disappeared from the literary life after 1970. The article discusses her works O živých a mŕtvych (On Those Who Are Alive and Dead, 1948) and Ako na cudzej svadbe (As at Somebody Else’s Wedding, 1987/2009). The other writer discussed in this article, Ľudo Zúbek, is an established name of Slovak literature, but is known mostly as an author of historical and biographical fiction, including a novel Jar Adely Ostrolúckej (Adela Ostrolúcka’s Spring, 1957), which is today incorrectly considered literature for young female readers. Other Zúbek’s works reached very little attention and acknowledgement. The article discusses his prosaic works Rozbitá dúha (Broken Rainbow, 1956) and Vltava (without date).

Can the dissident speak? The Czech woman writer in the work of Philip Roth and Dominik Tatarka

Author(s): Charles Sabatos / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

The Czech dissident movement that began in the late 1970s was a network in which women played a key role, but the Czech writers who gained fame in the West were invariably men. In Philip Roth’s 1985 novella The Prague Orgy, his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman meets a woman writer named Olga, whose pursuit of the American writer owes more to erotic fantasy than to the milieu Roth recreates in otherwise faithful detail. This portrayal of the Czech female as both sexualized and “other” can be traced back to twentieth century Prague-German writers,but Roth both politicizes and intellectualizes this archetype by making the desiring (rather than desired) woman a writer and dissident. A real-life perspective on the Czech disidentka (female dissident) appears in the work of Dominik Tatarka, one of the few Slovak writers tobe closely associated with the dissident movement. The last work Tatarka published in hislifetime was a memoir based on tape-recorded interviews with Eva Štolbová, who became Tatarka’s connection to Prague dissident circles. In 1988, these Navrávačky (Tapings) were published in edited book form in Germany, and it was not until more than a decade later that the full transcripts were published in Slovakia. While the female Czech dissident is eroticized in this text as well, Štolbová is not a mere object of desire; she portrays her side of the story inher own memoir, Lamento (1994). The gender dynamic between Štolbová and Tatarka subverts the cultural assumption in which the Czech language was constructed as “masculine”and Slovak as “feminine.” Thus both Roth and Tatarka illustrate the interplay between “otherness”and gender in the production of dissident culture, and its reception by domestic (both Czech and Slovak) as well as international readers.

Лирическая поэма Ивана Штрпки «Интермедии. Марионетки, укороченные на голову»: семантика заглавия и метафорика сюжета

Author(s): Nina Barkovskaya,Andrea Grominova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2017

The present paper is aimed at the interpretation of Ivan Štrpka’s poem Interlude. Puppets Shortened by a Head. The ambiguity of main pictures, the logics of the plot and the functions of intertext as well as peculiarities of its poetics are analysed. The theatricalization of the artistic world shows the crisis of totalitarian society, a “mental Armageddon” as well as an increase in contradictions in the very lyric subject at the same time. The social and politic meaning in the poem is directly related to philosophic content and metaliterature thoughts. The traditions of surrealism and dadaism are important to the author, and we can make a parallel with “neobaroque” of Elena Shvarts in contemporary Russian literature.

Von der Klage Ungarns bis zur Klage von Slavia im Werk von Ján Kollár

Author(s): Robert Kiss Szemán / Language(s): German Issue: 1(2)/2007

The study deals with one of the central motifs of Ján Kollár’s work ‘Slávy dcera’, namely with the history of the figure of Complaining Slavia. Kollár derives the motif from an address given in 1527 by the Humanist Latin poet Caspar Ursinus Velius, and from Velius’s epistle entitled ‘Querela Austriae’. The motif entered Hungary’s Latin-language literature and subsequently its Hungarian-language literature also, becoming an important topos in Late Humanist and Baroque writing. A didactic poem by Ján Kollár in Latin proves that its author was familiar with the Querela Hungariae (Complaining Hungary) topos since his days at secondary school. At the same time, Kollár reinterpreted the topos according to the ideological requirements of the national movements of the early 19th century, changing Complaining Hungary into Complaining Slavia. Kollár refashioned the topos from the poetic point of view also, in accordance with the rules of Classicism and Romanticism.

„...kde Maďarka, tam hnev; kde Nemkyňa, tam faleš; kde Cigánka, tam krádež“1 Utváranie stereotypov o „iných“ v slovenskej cestopisnej a národopisnej literatúre 19. storočia

Author(s): Rastislav Molda / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2012

The aim of the study is the analysis of the stereotypes of Hungarians, Jews, Germans and Romanies that are portrayed in the Slovak literature of the 19th century. The primary sources of the text analysis are travel and ethnographic works published as separate titles as well as the articles issued in the periodical press. Some of the mentioned literary pieces were due to limited publishing and financial possibilities published only in student's manuscript magazines and humorous magazines. Making stereotypes springs from an ambivalent relationship when there is the differentiation between "we" and "the others". Slovak authors used ironic, negative and even pejorative words when describing "the other" nationalities, whereas, they offered a positive self-portrayal when representing Slovaks. The goal of this study is to provide the record of the creation and usage of ethnic stereotypes in its complexity and in its context of the genesis of Slovak auto- and hetero-stereotypes about Hungarian nationalities in Slovak intellectual discussion. In this analysis of the stereotypes their functionality, frequency in various social environments as well as the media in which they occurred are stressed. Attention is paid to Slovak authors' expressions used in the depiction of "the others". The study is devoted to the stereotypes with the emphasis on particular situations in which they were formed. Moreover, this work points out reciprocal influence of the stereotypes and their importance. The extent of the study does not allow analyzing all the Slovak hetero-stereotypes mentioned in these literary genres. Therefore only the selection from the hetero-stereotype catalogue will be presented. According to this election Hungarians are presented as "a lazy and indolent nation", Germans as a "greedy and self-conceited" nation, Jews are stereotypically perceived as innkeepers and the stereotypes about Romanies are simply negative.

Smutný príbeh zo smutných čias: dve vojny v rodinnom živote spisovateľky Terézie Vansovej

Author(s): Xénia Šuchová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2009

The family history of the writer Tereza Vansová (1857-1942) was affected by two world wars. She lived through the Great War and World War II as an adult person – as the wife, later widow of an Evangelical pastor, socially engaged member of the Slovak intelligentsia aware of their national identity. There is no doubt that her distinguished position in society and her religion as well as her social status determined the character of her personal and family experience; furthermore, they influenced her conditions during and after the wars in terms of the applied "strategies of survival". In both war conflicts, Vansová´s opinions opposed the official establishment (first the Hungarian, and later on, the populists). In the revolutionary situation after World War I, she was one of the sincere supporters of the new Czechoslovak state and its democratic regime. The traumatising experience, which she recorded in documents of personal character, is in many ways typical of the environment of Evangelical families. Its negative impact upon Vansová´s family life was intensified by the fact that she was a public figure, emancipated intellectual, fully responsible for the financial support of an incomplete, to a certain extent, rather atypical family. The paper draws mainly on ego-documents: memories, correspondence, diaries, private records and marginal notes, put by the writer into contrast with documents of official provenience and other memoir literature.

K problematike interpretácie grafických príbehov Erika Jakuba Grocha z knihy Šlabikár päťmestia

Author(s): Martina Petríková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 21-22/2015

In this paper we deal with the selected artistic text from the literary workshop of Erik Jakub Groch. The author can be included among writers connected with the context of Eastern Slovakia. In his artistically conceived denunciations (not only) for younger recipient the author moves across the border of literature and visual art as mutually underlying ways of knowing and viewing of the world. Christian themes and symbols are proclaimed in his literary production, what we identified in selected stories.

Jubileusz Profesor Joanny Goszczyńskiej

Author(s): Aleksandra Pająk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2018

Telo, materstvo, trauma, príroda – o poézii Márie Jančovej

Author(s): Andrea Bokníková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3/2024

Mária Jančová (1908 – 2003) has been primarily known as the author of children’s books. This paper, however, aims to focus on her – largely overlooked – poetry. After an initial mapping of the theme of motherhood in Slovak women poets from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, the article takes a look at the phase of Jančová’s writing career when she authored poems. Some of these were published in her only collection of poetry, Blahoslavení ([Blessed] 1940, 1968). The article provides a close reading of several poems and comments on the flowing of energy between the movements of the body (external movements and internal processes) and nature, with reference to the notion of “lyrical gestures” as defined by the French literary scholar Dominique Rabaté. It also discusses the image of the bodily connection between the mother and her sick little son and the transmigration of the human element into meteorological phenomena and flowers. The poet’s inclination towards the country life connected to the elements and rhythms of life (in this collection) or her confessional-referential poetry of sentiment (present in other poems) may resonate with contemporary readers or inspire theory of the lyric. The essay’s theoretical framework is based on the conceptualisation of motherhood in literary studies, philosophy, and art theory, and on theories that connect aesthetics with bodily processes.

Jeseň života alebo nová jar? Poznámky k fenoménu starnutia v tvorbe vybraných slovenských poetiek

Author(s): Veronika Rácová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3/2024

The essay links a broader sociological and literary studies approach to the issue of old age, ageing, and ageism. On the basis of research in the field of sociology and gerontology, it outlines dominant tendencies that point to the social and individual reception of older age. The article then looks in the ways ageing-related processes are portrayed in Slovak poetry written by women over the age of sixty-five. The essay captures the basic thematic and motivic frameworks used by selected women poets to depict ageing and looks at how the transformations of the body are mirrored in the inner psychological experience of the lyrical subjects and focuses on the quality of such interpersonal relationships in the establishment or cultivation of which age can play an important role. The article also wishes to ask whether this period of life can be thought of as the so-called autumn of life, which has rather negative associations attached to it, or whether the period in question can, on the contrary, be understood as a source of new opportunities, the so-called new spring.

Ona i oni

Author(s): Magdalena Bystrzak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14 (17)/2024

The article presents preliminary results of research on the legacy of Mária Holuby (1851–1919), a Slovak female writer and protestant, which mainly concerns Holuby’s personal notes titled "Tajnosti “Odkliateho zámku”" [Mysteries of the Broken-Curse Castle] (1879–1885), deposited in the Literary Archive of the Slovak National Library in Martin. The text focuses on Holuby’s attitude towards Svetozár Hurban Vajanský (1847–1916) and Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849–1921) – the authority figures in Slovak national culture of the time. "Tajnosti “Odkliateho zámku”" reveals a wide emotional spectrum – from euphoria to moments of breakdown, bitterness and despair, and thus the text is regarded as a draft of a potential publication in which Holuby explains her motivations to write and to enter the literary scene in the early 1880s.

Translated, transgressed, transported: A century of Whitman in Slovakia

Author(s): Ivana Hostová / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

This article examines the reception and influence of Walt Whitman’s poetry in Slovak literature from the early 20th century to the present day. Through thoroug hanalysis of translations, tribute poems, and paratextual material, the author traces Whitman’s journey into Slovak literary consciousness, highlighting key moments of engagement and adaptation. From early translations in the 1950s under state socialism to contemporary retranslations, the article maps out Whitman’s evolving presence in Slovak poetry, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities of translating his work in different socio-political contexts. Furthermore, it explores the complexities of literary translation and the shifting dynamics of cultural capitalin post-socialist Slovakia, where Whitman’s enduring appeal continues to resonate within a fragmented and ever-changing literary landscape. This work was supported by VEGA 2/0009/23 “Creative Experiments with Text from the Perspective of Critical Posthumanism: Poetic, Artistic and Translation Practice in Slovak Culture in the International Context”,

Publishing poetry in translation in Slovakia 2013–2023

Author(s): Ján Gavura / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

Poetry’s peripheral position in translation affects the book market by leaving its production to small and non-profit presses that compensate for their economicloss with state and cultural subsidies. This has been the reality in Slovakia during the last decade (2013–2023), with most poetry translations published by small semi-professional presses headed by single managers who, in most cases, happen to be authors, poets, and poetry translators themselves. In the period under review,158 poetry translations were published by 24 presses, four of which published 88of the collections (55.7%). The most prolific publishers include three presses run by poets – FACE (run by Ján Gavura), Skalná ruža (Juraj Kuniak), and Modrý Peter(Peter Milčák) – while the fourth press is Vydavateľstvo Spolku slovenských spisovateľov (VSSS), the publishing house of the Slovak Writers’ Society. Each press has a specific policy of selection for publishing, with the diversity of poets being one of the main criteria, and translators’ input being another. Unlike other genres of translation, the English language is not as dominant in the portfolio of the four most prolific presses, followed by Serbian and Polish. A semi-peripheral language position is held by Spanish, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, and Slovenian, but there are also translations from other 13 languages. This work was supported by VEGA 1/0666/22 “Slovak Literary Culture After 1989 (Dictionary of Terms,Participants and Institutions)”.