Češki humor i njegovi predstavnici

Author(s): Naděžda Melniková-Papoušková / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 06-07/1934

Humor u književnosti najasnije, možda, pokazuje bitne nacijonalne osobine jednog naroda. Karakteristična crta češkog humora sastoji se u tome što se u njemu ne može naći ni žuči ni mržnje; po tome je on istinski humor, a ne tek satira koja šiba. Čak za vreme Rata, kad su ugnjetavanja od strane austrijske vlade davala mnogo povoda za satiru, češki narod je na njih odgovarao šalom, kojoj je bio cilj da stavi protivnika u smešan položaj.

Поглед на савремену чешкословачку књижевност

Author(s): Jovan Kršić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 06-07/1934

Новија чешкословачка књижевност, у свом наглом развоју кроз цео Деветнаести Век и три деценије Двадесетога Века, показује две прилично јасно обележене оријентације: једну према Западној Европи, германској и романској; другу према Словенству и домаћој културној традицији. Опречност тих двеју оријентација, која се у чешкој књижевности оceћa веh од почетка 17. века - у сукобу између духа чешке Реформације и западне Ренесансе -, чини важну идејну базу новије чешкословачке књижевности.

Słowacki klimat Europy Środkowej w Polsce

Author(s): Marta Buczek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

The article focuses on the issues related to the translations of Slovak contemporary literature into Polish in recent years. It considers the translation and reception of the Slovak literary works in the Polish market which has strongly intensified recently thanks to the activity of the Polish publishing house, Książkowe Klimaty. The article analyses the translations published by Książkowe Klimaty in the series Słowackie Klimaty which play the role of mediation, by promoting understanding between two cultures belonging to the common Central European circle of nations.

Народные и апокрифические мотивы рождественского цикла, отраженные в углянских рукописях второй половины XVII века

Author(s): Svetlana Shasherina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2014

This paper deals with Apocryphas of the nativity cycle, particularly motives of the Three Wise Men arriving, which includes Afroditian’s legend as well, in cultural context of Transcarpatia, which is a border area between Slavia latina and Slavia byzantina. The datas for study were two cyrillic manuscripts from Ugľa monastery from the 17th century.

Idea nowego początku w słowackich wizjach dziejów z połowy XIX wieku

Author(s): Anna Kobylińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2014

The point of this paper is to show that the idea of new beginning was clearly present in mid-19th century Slovak literature. This idea became the means of conveying revisions of Slovak history. It was also a sign of a deep cultural change, resulting from factors including secularisation and the influence of nationalist ideology. The direction of change can be observed in selected works by Janko Kráľ, Viliam Pauliny-Tóth, and Jonáš Záborský. These writers challenge the optimistic view of the world by seeing in it a fundamental mistake that needs to be corrected. They propose correcting the myth of origin (Christian, national), but on the basis of a hermetic paradigm (magic and/or gnosis). Thus they create a false dimension of transcendence that becomes the foundation of the “new era”.

„Przeszłości ślad dłoń nasza zmiata”. Refleksje na marginesie wybranych tekstów literackich z obszaru słowiańskich krajów demokracji ludowych

Author(s): Celina Juda / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2014

Formulas of “forgetting” in the totalitarian half-century as well as post-1989 have changed shape and intensity. Strategies of disavowal and rejection of the proximate and distant past differ depending on the intensity of the ideologising processes in the structure of the phenomenon. The systemic mechanism of ritual burial and announcement of the end of “bad past, bad times” includes a number of phases (from construction to reconstruction). This paper examines the strategies under the first of these phases (1944–1956), during which the process of incorporating an external matrix created in revolutionary conditions (Soviet culture) into local culture/literature was the strongest. The practice consists of an unconditional transfer from the model of a maximum number of factors which sanction acts of disavowing the proximate and distant past and legitimise subjection to the chosen / ideal system (denial/discreditation of the old world order, new genres, a new way to explain the past, clear vision of the future).

Ján Stanislav a jazyková kultúra

Author(s): Jana Skladaná / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 02/2016

The paper analyses the work of Ján Stanislav in the field of current Slovak literary language, current language culture and current Slovak correct pronunciation. Ján Stanislav´s view on these language areas is characterized and compared to current views. The paper provides an overview of works on these areas closely in the final bibliography.

Dva rukopisy z konca 17. storočia z Marmaroša

Author(s): Svetlana Vašíčková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 02/2016

The paper was created as a part of solving APVV project devoted to Cyrillic literature in Slovakia written until the end of 18th century. Uglian Gospel and Uglian Miscellanea are Cyrillic literary monuments of the Carpathian provenience from the end of 17th century. In this paper we describe Uglian manuscripts in angle of palaeography and content.

Attempt to Outline the Situation in the Publication of Literature in Slovakia (1980 - 1989)

Author(s): Marián Grupač / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

Príliš zložitá hra (života a lásky)

Author(s): Mária Stanková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2015

The aim of this paper is to interpret Válek ́s significant and long poem named Skľúčenosť (depression). We will focus on his poetic, catalogue of motives, figurativeness and we will accent motive of sensuality at his poetry.

Trnavská skupina

Author(s): Boris Brendza,Marián Grupač / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2014

In a study of poetic literary-artistic group from Trnava - Trnava group, we will introduce its founding members (Ján Stacho, Ján Ondruš, Jozef Mihalkoviča and Ľubomír Feldek). We analyze different views on aesthetics and art direction Concretists their content concept, related features, but also differences in the perception of poetic. Interesting is analogy with another literary-artistic group operating in the same period in the USA – Beat Generation. Furthermore, there were approximately planned or implemented before publishing their first appearance in the magazine Mladá tvorba. Finally, we summarize the overall contribution of poets associated in Trnava group.

Od rozprávok k alegórii národného života (Ku konštituovaniu alegórie zakliatej krajiny v slovenskom romantizme)

Author(s): Jana Pácalová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2017

The paper is concerned with establishing the allegory of a cursed country in Slovak Romanticism, which is one of the defining signs in the works by the poets of the so-called Levoča School, however, their sphere of action was actually (as it is demonastrated in the material processed) considerably wider. The goal of the paper is to show when, in what way and through what mechanisms an originally neutral and general term, which was and still is an integral part of the language schemes (in the general sense, featuring a potentially implicit reference to the Bible – a curse), has transformed to one of the defining motifs of the Romantic topics, what way, in what forms and functions, it has become part of the mythic and poetic image (simile, symbol, allegory) and what mechanisms made it possible for the term to develop a form of one of the Slovaks´ best-known national myths.

Vilikovského pátranie po skutočnosti: Fotografia a trpkastá príchuť skutočného

Author(s): Tomáš Horváth / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2017

The paper interprets the radical way of rewriting the detective fiction in the short story by Pavel Vilikovský Celkový pohľad na Máriu B. (The Overall View of Maria B., 1968) and in his novel Prvá veta spánku (The First Sentence of Sleep, 1983). The two texts are in a mutual relation of variants, while their intertextual illumination generates more meanings. In the short story the narrator tells the whole story in the modality of possibility. Several events of the narrative structure are of an ontic nature. The text of the short story only provides the reader with one side of the communication process of investigation – the sender, the detective asking questions, i.e. the text offers the base of the evidence, not the core. The veil of the detective´s hypotheses conceals or at least obscures the reality – and the detective has to use simple existential statements in order to ensure what is real. Here the detective becomes a machine to generate hypotheses about the reality after the reality (the past murder) has disappeared. The novel Prvá veta spánku is disappointing in terms of genre expectations raised by itself – a seemingly detective novel becomes a novel featuring an external perpetrator. This genre method is motivated by the composition structure itself – the trifold consecutive focalization of the narration and two fake solutions. The criminal solution of the case is enabled by the unexpected abduction of the detective: the scene of crime and the weather – the remote stone-pit during the rain – help the detective draw the conclusion as to the fundamental characteristic of the perpetrator.

Trhliny v česko-slovenské vzájemnosti koncem 19. století na příkladu cestopisu Terézie Vansové

Author(s): Jana Pátková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2017

The form of Czech-Slovak mutuality had during the 19th century monolithic character. On the example of travelogue literature in the 19th and the 20th centuries, among other things we can see the difficult historical situation in Slovakia was located then. Terézia Vansová in her travelogue Pani Georgiadesová na cestác/Ms Georgiadesová’s traveling) subtitled Veselý cestopis do Prahy na národopisnú výstavu (1896 – 1897)/Happy travelogue to Prague on an ethnographic exhibition (1896 – 1897)) captures this transformation, along with the transformation of literary and socio-historical code. From the typological point of view in this travelogue an obvious yaw from hitherto in travelogue genre. Selection of a fictional narrator instead of the author’s point of view and a female optics story appears in the development of Slovak literature as new one. The author, through a fictional narrator Johanna Georgiadesová thematises mutual (Czech-Slovak and Slovak-Czech) ignorance of culturally and historically closest land. Journey to the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition held in 1895, occupies a central place in the travelogue and meant for Vansová despite thematisation cracks also strengthening of national self-confidence.

Nábožensko-ľudovýchovný aspekt vo vecnej literatúre Slovákov v Rumunsku

Author(s): Patrik Šenkár / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2017

The goal of the paper is to address the continuous existence of Slovak national culture outside the physical borders of the mother land. The readers are introduced into the subject of the complex evolution of the Slovaks living in the then Romanian Kingdom / Romania, especially in the first half of the 20th century. The objective and subjective interpretation reflects on the religious and didactic aspect in factual literature written by the Slovaks living in Romania by presenting two original writings which had (have) an important role and function in the social – cultural – literary development (i.e. they are a kind of stimuli for the national identity and self-preservation). The study contains particular extracts of the originals or metatexts written by experts in the given field, which help „illustrate“ the atmosphere of that period as well as the creative stimuli for this national minority within a wider context. The outcome and the contribution of the paper are seen in informing the people interested in the subject of the fact that the Slovak element „has pulsated with life“ not only below the Tatras but also further south.

Medzinárodný workshop Prolegomena k poetike slovenskej literatúry po roku 1945

Author(s): Daniel Domorák / Language(s): Slovak,Czech Issue: 2/2017

Poetika mlade generacije slovačkih pesnika iz Vojvodine

Author(s): Vicazoslav Hronjec / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 256/257/1980

Poetika mlade generacije slovačkih peinika u Vojvodini (Miroslav Demka, Miroslav Dudok, Mihal Đugk Zlatko Benka, Jozef Klaeik), posmatrano s više aspekata, formiirala se kao negacija onih najkarakterlističnlijih ishodišta koji su uticali na stvaranje »grupne poetike« prethodne generacije. Termin »grupna poetika« ovaj put obeležavamo navodniioima, jer jd u prethodnoj generaciji i ne treba tražiti samo u pesničkim tekstovima, nego i u tekstovima kritičkim, kakve je pisao i piše jedan njen pnipađnik koji deluje ssuno kao kritičar (Mlihal Harpanj), kao i onaj drugi koji je pre svega pesnik |(autor ovih redova).

K rôznym podobám autobiografického písania v slovenskej próze po roku 2000

Author(s): Marta Součková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 4/2023

This study specifies three forms of autobiographical writing: the prose of Jana Bodnárová’s takmer neviditeľná (almost invisible, 2008), whose title (beginning with a lowercase letter) suggests the dissolution of the subject in fragments from her past and present life; the hybrid “novel” of Katarína Kucbelová Čepiec (2019; forthcoming in Eng. trans. The Bonnet,2024), in which the autobiographical line is one of its many layers; and Michaela Rosová’s novella Tvoja izba (Your room, 2019), both revealing and concealing hidden layers of the self. Through the texts in question and secondary literature, the article documents not only the re-vitalization of autobiographical approaches in Slovak women’s writing after 2000, but also the reinforcement of its fictionalization.

Slovenské varianty haiku na vzestupu

Author(s): Svatava Urbanová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2024

Unwanted Neighbours, Unwanted Memory. Slovak–Roma Relations in Marek Vadas’s Six Strangers

Author(s): Rafał Majerek / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2023

In contemporary Slovakia, the Roma population are often seen as unwantedneighbours – a marginalised community, which experiences discrimination in variousspheres of life. Anti-Romani sentiment, which constitutes the basis of negative attitudes to-ward the Roma minority, is hardly a new phenomenon; its manifestations, including specif-ic acts of violence, can be found in the past. One of the examples of this kind of violence– the bloody pogrom in Pobedim carried out against the Romani populace by their Slovakneighbours in 1928 – offer a starting point for Marek Vadas’s Six Strangers (Šesť cudzincov,2021). The historic site of the massacre, which is not commemorated in any form, has be-come a non-site of memory, while the tragic events have been pushed out of Slovak historicalconsciousness. Vadas’s prose is an attempt to bring them back to the collective conscious-ness and raise a number of important questions concerning the operation of cultural codesthat permit and justify violence, the position and responsibility of the bystanders, as well assilence as a form of complicity in acts of aggression. In addition, it introduces a contempo-rary perspective, pointing to the persistence of mechanisms of discrimination, stigmatisa-tion and exclusion of the Others, understood in many different ways, from the community.