(Ne)tradièné, (ne)humorné a (ne)špecifické v Rozkošových Prozaických textoch

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

The contribution analyzes the importance of tradition and humor as the basic foundations of nationality in the Lowland. It points to the thematic diversity of the different prototypes: from the erotically tuned novel to the tragicomically understood story of simple people. It echoes some experimental experimentation in the background of everyday protagonists' actions. Its interesting part is the texts relating to drivers and driving. The opposition of the village / city, man / woman, close / far is determined by the regional aspect and the principle due to various encounters. Effective descriptions are alternated with attractive dynamic thematic gradients. This is also the author's specificity in the development of Slovak literature in Romania. The basic reflection bridge of the contribution is the individual prose of a Slovak author from Romania – Pavel Rozkoš.

A vajdasági tér és a szlovák irodalom

Author(s): Marína Šimáková Speváková / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2015

Vojvodinian motifs in minority literatures were considered on the one hand to be expressions of locality; on the other hand there are works which substantiate the reality of existence of Vojvodina and incorporate it into the universal semantic space. By combining the methodological approach of the Slovak and Brno school of comparatistics, we have the opportunity to asses from a wider perspective the importance of traditionalist and antitraditionalist texts, and in particular, literary works on the border zone of various genres. Space, which emerges in these works, does not denote only the framework of the existence of the literary artefact but also the fact of being a part of it.

Adaptačné prístupy inscenátorov k románovému prototextu v súčasnom slovenskom divadle

Author(s): Miran Pukan / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2019

Dramatization as well as adaptation of the classical epic works for contemporary theatre; usually drama; has its own logic. It is the reaction on confused or mediocre aesthetic value of contemporary national as well as European drama which probably cannot adequately refl ect present-day problems of the addressee. Heterogeneity of adaptation procedures realized by domestic as well as foreign producers; concerning the novel pretext; can be illustrated by fi ve analyses of theatre performances presented in the prestigious professional theatres after the year 2000. There are several reasons for their choice: they mean constitute the theatre stages which represent the artistic top of the Slovak theatre thanks to their production and staging projects and at the same time they have the status of individual institutional form. First one is Slovak National Theatre Bratislava which presented two adaptations of Slovak cult novels – fi rst one from interwar period; Švantner´s Nevesta hôľ (2015); directed by Roman Polák; and second one; contemporary Pišťanek´s Rivers of Babylon (2016); directed by guest director from Slovenia Diego De Brea. However; it was Theatre of Alexander Duchnovič Prešov (DAD); previously called Ukrainian National Theatre until 1900; in which two dramatizations of prestigious Russian novels were presented; namely Goncharov’s Oblomov (2000); directed by Matúš Oľha; a Dostoyevsky’s Idiot (2005); directed by guest British director Jan Willem van den Bosch. Apart from these dramatizations; DAD presented also the adaptation of well-known Grimmelshausen’s baroque novel Dobrodružný Simplicius Simplicissimus under the title Princove halušky alebo Uhorský Simplicissimus (2002) which was directed by Matúš Oľha; too. The choice of these theatre ensembles and their plays was not accidental because both the companies represent cultural theatre spots developing and cultivating national identity (in the fi rst case) and ethnical identity of Ruthenians who live in the Eastern Slovakia and their theatre aesthetics includes many exceptional procedures and progressive development tendencies not only in the context of Slovak professional theatre (in the second case). Solving typological and terminological questions is very complicated and urgent task; apart from other reasons also because of pragmatism (e.g. the question of copyrights). On the basis of long-term research activity concerning adaptations of literary works; theoreticians adopted the view that it is not possible to judge adaptation and dramatization procedures or diff erent author attitudes in general and that it is necessary to specify diff erent ways of treating the literary text in the complicated intersemiotic and intertextual transformational process resulting into autochthonous stage play.

Ako sa (ne)dělá Stodola? (k inscenáciám dvoch hier Ivana Stodolu)

Author(s): Eva Kyselová / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 02/2010

The dramatics of Ivan Stodola shaped and formed Slovak professional theatre. His texts provided one of the key dramaturgical bases in the process of formation of contemporary Slovak drama staging and he was actually the first to write plays systematically in the period of early professionalization of Slovak theatre. On the Czech stages, the situation was different. Humble staging tradition and not always successful interpretations indicate differences not only in dramaturgical issues but also in the issues of different tastes of spectators but, ultimately, significant differences between two independent theatre cultures. Two of Stodola’s plays were quite a success on the Czech stages; Tea at Mr. Senator’s and Jožko Púčik and his career. Both plays have attracted attention until recently –Tea at Mr. Senator was premiered at the Estates Theatre in Prague on 18th March 2010 (Czech premiere was at Švanda Theatre in Prague in 1934). Dramaturgical selection of this play was to bring the audience a lighter and witty comedy that would point to a parallel with the current state of the society and send the actual message before the upcoming elections. On the 15th April 2010, Slovak section of the Prague Theatre in Dlouhá Street performed a stage reading of the play Jožko Púčik and his career. The young director Brano Holiček (coincidentally great-grandnephew of Ivan Stodola) strongly adapted the text because he realized that the text itself without any major modification and interpretation would be just boring replay. The directorial and-dramaturgical input is essential;“ a satire on false humanism“ was staged as the theatre within the theatre. The author of this study analyzes both productions and notes that efforts that aimed to bring new life into the Stodola’s satire have remained unfulfilled.

Ako Svätopluk svoju zem za bieleho koňa predal... Vzájomné obrazy Slovákov a Maďarov v slovenských a maďarských dejepisných učebniciach vydávaných v rokoch 1918 až 1989

Author(s): Slávka Otčenášová / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2012

This article deals with the mutual images and stereotypes of Slovaks and Hungarians presented in Czechoslovak, Slovak and Hungarian history textbooks published between 1918 – 1989. The textbooks employed the same principles while creating the image of the Self and the Other. In all cases the authors of the textbooks opted for creating a positive image of their own nation by employing images of its cultural and moral superiority, while the Others were characterized as immoral traitors on a lower degree of civilisational development. Narratives presented in official history textbooks reflect the political agenda, desirable values and the efforts the political elites made in order to create a collective identity of the citizens of the state and to develop the loyalty of subjects to the country they live in. Thus, every change of political regime brings with it the necessity to reinterpret the past and to reconstruct the national history – as such, in which the current state, or the current ambitions and political programs of the elites would be seen as the natural, legitimate and most desirable result of historical development.

Alexander Matuška – neľútostný kritik slovenského tradicionalizmu

Author(s): Vlasta Jaksicsová / Language(s): Slovak / Publication Year: 0

Po viac ako dvadsaťročnej spolupráci s historikom Ivanom Kamencom, ktorá akosi prirodzene prerástla aj do ľudskej roviny, som počas mnohých, pre mňa veľmi obohacujúcich diskusiách s ním nadobudla vnútorné presvedčenie, že v jeho ľudskom i profesionálnom živote zastávajú (vlastne už de facto zastávali) pevné miesto dva ľudské a profesionálne vzory. Bol to historik Ľubomír Lipták, ktorý bol zároveň i jeho „učiteľom“, zaúčajúcim svojho mladého ašpiranta histórie krok za krokom do tajomstiev „historického remesla“, a najvýznamnejší predstaviteľ slovenskej literárnej kritiky a esejistiky 20. storočia Alexander Matuška. Vzhľadom na význam oboch osobností v slovenskej historiografii i literárnej histórii, tento výber nie je na prvý pohľad až taký prekvapujúci. Bolo akosi prirodzené, že mladý absolvent histórie a dejín umenia sa aj svojou ľudskou a mentálnou výbavou bude uberať tou ťažšou cestou, a to večným, azda aj nekonečným hľadaním morálneho imperatívu v dejinách, predovšetkým však konaním a postojmi ľudí, ktorí tieto dejiny tvorili a ovplyvňovali. Matuška bol Kamencovi blízky najmä svojím povestným, neľútostným kriticizmom a glosovaním spoločenských javov (do vlastných radov), rád ho cituje – a nie je sám – lebo tohto briskného ekvilibristu slovenského slova citujú mnohí, jeho totiž nemožno „len“ prerozprávať. Sám Matuška nemal túto charakteristiku rád, ale sa za ňu ani nehanbil. Tým, čo ho označovali iba za verbalistu, ktorý neprináša nič nové, odkazoval: „hovorili o mojom hračkárení, naznačovali čosi o verbálnom efektníčení, ba aj o verbalizme. Tým chceli povedať, že síce pekne píšem, ale neprinášam nič nové, lebo ako by to bolo – však? – aj pekne aj nové? Pretože oni nevedeli písať, mysleli si, že sú hlbokí ... uznávam, že ... bez trošku hry to tomu, kto s ním [so slovom] pracuje po celý život naozaj nejde...“.

An Overview Of The New Media Role
In Original Literature Publishing In Slovakia During The First Decade Of The New Millennium And Shortly After

Author(s): Marián Grupač / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Public publishing space for authors of original contemporary literature in Slovakia has changed and expanded significantly in the last three decades since 1989. Due to the development and use of modern technologies and the existence of digital virtual space, nowadays the authors of Slovak literature can publish their texts in many more media than before 1989, and almost without any limitations. However, the literary, aesthetic, cultural or fundamental artistic relevance of such contributions is in many cases controversial. In the context of the publication space of new media, internet portals and online literary magazines often publish without deeper critical selection and (often even minimal objective literary-critical reflection almost everything delivered to their editorial mailbox as by ambitious writers?), as well by those whose works are lacking basic literary talent and the necessary creativity.
 The paper maps the situation in the area of publishing original literature, especially poetry, in Slovakia at the beginning of the 21st century in the context of the use of new media and modern digital technologies.

Andrej Sládkovič v chorvátskej recepcii

Author(s): Marijan Šabić / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2021

The article is a contribution to the research of Slovak-Croatian literary and cultural relations. It focuses at the reception of Andrej Sládkovič (1820 – 1872) in the Croatian context. The second half of the 19th century is investigated through the analysis of contributions to Croatian literary magazines and newspapers such as Danica, Dragoljub, Vienac, Slavonac and Nada. The analysis of the 20th century and contemporary reception looks at texts published in various magazines, books and anthologies which contain translations by Luko Paljetak, Dubravka Dorotić Sesar and others. Since Sládkovič did not have any personal contacts with Croatian intellectuals of the time, the presence of his work in the 19th century Croatian cultural space was scarce. Wider recognition of his oeuvre came much later and in the late 20th century, it was intensified by the establishment of a Slovak studies programme at the University of Zagreb (as part of Czech studies in 1994 and as a separate programme in 1997). While in the 19th century, period magazines and newspapers – albeit sporadically – do mention Sládkovič, but do not contain any translations of his work, nowadays, translations are available, but are usually only known in the narrow academic circles of (mainly) Slavic studies experts.

Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

The Philological Annals of "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia has a long and strong cultural tradition, bringing together representatives of Romanian and European culture (Literature, Linguistics, Foreign languages and literatures, History of Culture, Arts, Philosophy). The articles are the results of different individual or group research projects developed especially in the two research centre that function in our faculty: The Centre for Philological Research and Multicultural Dialogue and The Centre for Innovation in Linguistical Education. Some other articles were included in different international conferences or workshops. We try to foccus on the nowadays challenges in culture and education, so that our review is a support for long-life training and promotes the idea of dialogue between cultural identities.

Aspekt dieťaťa a princíp hry v čítaní pre mladého čitateľa

Author(s): Viera Žemberová / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2018

The study deals with effective ways of coping with both semantics of literary prose texts and their artistic values for a young reader. Semantics of artistic text is relevant for comprehension of a story. Artistic value analysed in the article concerns the poetics utilised by an author of literary text. Important author’s strategies include text composition, child’s aspect, adult’s aspect and playfulness. With a focus on text comprehension, the authors Hana Lasicová and Ľubica Brix modified the way in which they harmonised communication contact of the narrators and the acts of children’s characters in both of their texts. The potential of both texts is fulfilled in cognitive, educational, moral and emotional forms of contact between the main idea and the story.

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

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

Autobiografia P. Paulína Bajana OFM (1721–1792)

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 03+04/2016

KAČIC, L. – ZAVARSKÝ, S. (Eds.): The Autobiography of P. Paulinus Bajan OFM (1721–1792), Slavica Slovaca, 51, 2016, No. 3 (supplementum), pp. 3 – 93 (Bratislava). The Franciscan preacher, organ player, and composer P. Paulinus Bajan OFM (1721–1792) was a prominent figure of Slovakia’s culture in the eighteenth century. Bajan’s Latin autobiography provides a vivid picture of the vicissitudes of his life, beginning with his childhood and taking us through the adventures of his education, his entrance into the Fransciscan Order, and his years as a musician and long-time preacher in Skalica, his hometown. Bajan’s autobiography is written in a fresh and sprightly style. The Latin he used was obviously very close to the colloquial form of the language spoken in his contemporary Slovakia. This critical edition, accompanied by a Slovak translation, is intended to become a basis for further philological, historical, and literary research.

Básnik a mesto : Viedenské roky Jána Kollára

Author(s): Tatiana Ivantyšynová,Peter Podolan,Miriam Viršinská / Language(s): Slovak / Publication Year: 2015

The revolutionary years 1848 – 1849 had a significant impact on the lives of all people in the multi- ethnical Habsburg monarchy. The revolution brought the Austrian empire and its sovereign new issues which had to be solved inevitably. In the new circumstances the main task for the imperial court was the adjustment of the public administration in the country which was to be handed over to new and reliable people. At the beginning of 1849 the government created a new advisory institution. The governmental advisors became the main proponents of the Slovak issues at the governing circles in Vienna. Ján Kollár was named the adviser at the beginning of April 1849 and thus, after thirty years in Pest, he came to Vienna where he later also died. In his new role Kollár focused on solving the Slovak issue – national rights of Slovaks which, in his opinion, were to be extended in Hungary in a several phases. Firstly he pursued to completely and definitely eliminate magyarization and finally bring it to its end. Following this aim he made some elaborates for the government. One of them, about national administration is still undiscovered. In others he was dealing with changes in the school system and in the Lutheran church in the Habsburg monarchy. Both documents are summarizations of Kollár’s ideas about how school system and Lutheran church should function in the monarchy with the emphasis on language and national equality. While working as the governmental adviser he also engaged in other spheres. He used his good relationships with the Austrian governing authorities for the benefit of Slovaks. He recommended people whom he trusted for important posts. He managed to put through the so called Old Slovak language (Czech language with some Slovak elements) as a literary language, was zealous to establish a great Slovak principality and he made efforts to solve all contemporary problems of Slovaks in Hungary. Shortly after arriving in Vienna he found himself at the Vienna University as a professor of “Slavic archeology“, which made it possible for him to devote his time to his greatest passion, i. e. studying Slavic past and mythology towards the end of his life. Thanks to Kollár’s stay at the university, his last works were dedicated to the oldest history of Slavs in the European area. He became the pioneer of archeological research in which he tried to use the available scientific works and also to create new scientific terminology. Staroitalia slavjanska… with almost 900 pages was Kollar’s largest volume published. It was a mixture of the method of his previous scientific works aimed mainly at etymological explanation of national names (Rozprawy…, Sláwa Bohyně…) with a new archeological range. The last elaborated sphere of Kollár’s scientific interest at the end of the 1840s and the beginning of the 1850s were the so called Prillwitz idols allegedly representing the deity from Retra, about which, towards the end of his life, Kollár wrote a vast book with the same title which was never published.

Bilješke o narodnom životu u romanima Martina Kukučina

Author(s): Nevena Škrbić Alempijević / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 16/2004

This article discusses the way and the mode in which fiction can be used as a source of ethnographic data, using the novels of the Slovak writer Martin Kukučin (1860-1928) as a case study. Novels by Kukučin can be used as a source of ethnographic data to Croatian ethnologists because the author spent almost half of his life living among Croats. For thirteen years he lived in the village of Selca on the Island of Brač, while he spent the next fifteen year among the immigrants from the island of Brač in Chile. He based two of his novels on his experiences there: Kuća u strani, which is located in a patriarchal, somewhat idealized rural community on the Island of Brač, and Mati zove, in which he described the life of Croatian, mostly Dalmatian immigration community in the Chilean county of Magellanas. Both novels are filled with descriptions of different segments of traditional culture (notes on traditional economy, clothing, traditional architecture, customs, magical rites, etc.). The importance of folk heritage in the work of Kukučin is emphasized in such a way that his starting points can be compared with the principles which Antun Radić, his contemporary, has introduced into folk research. In creating a model for his literary, fictional societies, the author frequently employs traditional worldviews and concepts, and especially emphasizes the distinctive characteristics which one community carries in relation to Others, as well as the conflicts which exist inside the community itself, between different strata in society. Novels by Kukučin can be interesting for ethnologists for a number of reasons. For example, in Kuća u strani, he describes: cultural differences between different groups inside the village community, between Us and Them, everyday life of village people which Kukučin includes in his novel; the organization of village family, unwritten rules and moral principles followed by the community. In the novel Mati zove he tackles the following issues: integration of Dalmatian immigrants to the apparently homogenized Croatian community in Chile, assignment of collective character and mentality to all the members of a given community. He also includes memories of homeland in the form of ethnographic description, where he emphasizes the notion of the undiminished value of rural heritage; a conflict but also an inter-fusion of two different ways of life seen from the point of view of the immigrants: which elements of their own culture have they preserved in the immigration, which new elements have they adopted in the new country. However, in accepting Kukučin's novels as sources of ethnographic data, we have to bear in mind that they were written by a person whose cultural background was quite different; many paragraphs signify a certain intercession between the two cultures. In his works on Brač and the immigrant Dalmatians, sometimes consciously and sometimes not, he includes data from another traditional culture the one he originated from.

Bondyho bratislavská Epizóda

Author(s): Radoslav Passia / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 3/2021

The introductory section of the article reconstructs the arrival of the Czech writer, philosopher and foremost member of underground culture, Egon Bondy (1930 – 2007) to Bratislava in 1993. There he became part of the city’s intellectual and cultural (literary, musical and artistic) life. The novella Epizódaʼ96 [Episode ʼ96] Bondy wrote in Slovak is an important contribution to the literary identity of the city. The article interprets the close relationship between Bondy’s narrator and space and also looks at the central topoi present in Bondy’s portrayal of Bratislava. He presents the city via “emptiness”. Diachronically, this means putting into spotlight some of the key episodes (unknown territories) of the weakened historical memory of the city (life and work of the sculptor F. X. Messerschmidt and the fates of the Jewish community). Synchronically, the author focuses on the structure of the city formed by socialist planning and on the empty spaces as natural spaces that to a great extent determine Bratislava’s genius loci (the Danube, the Little Carpathians).

Bratislava na prahu – Bratislava prahov (Mesto v epoche normalizácie: Životy unikajúce Dušana Krausa)

Author(s): Vladimír Barborík / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 3/2021

The article takes a look at the representations of Bratislava in Dušan Kraus’s debut novel Životy unikajúce [Lives Leaking; 1979]. It reconstructs the methods that model the city and its image in the context of other portrayals of the urban setting in Slovak prose (Ladislav Ballek: Pomocník [The helper]; Agáty [The locust trees]; Stanislav Rakús: Temporálne poznámky [Temporal notes]). The novel does not name the city in which it takes place, but from the names of locations and the typical spatial arrangements it pertains that the text is set in Bratislava. The differentiation of the spatial structure is complementary with the division of space into the private and public spheres. Social life functions (work and amusement) are situated in the centre while private lives unwind in the new housing estates at the outskirts of the city. Kraus portrayed Bratislava of the normalisation era in line with its period character, i.e. as urbs, but not as civitas (Olivier Mongin: The Urban Condition) – as a city without a public space. The novel works with two semantic layers. The narrative is of factual or even official record character, the symbolic generalisation rests on the double meaning of the title that evokes both a gas leak and the movement of its victims from life to death as well as the city as a fluid, unstable entity where life “leaks” from its inhabitants.

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.

Causa „Černoboh bamberský“

Author(s): Peter Podolan / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 18/2015

Ján Kollár (1793 – 1852) was well known Slovak representative, celebrated poet and ideologist. However his scientific career is still not well illuminated. This paper focuses on Kollár's interest in history and his discovery of the supposed Slavic pagan idol. During the honeymoon in autumn 1835 Kollár visited town Bamberg in Germany. Near entrances of the Bamberg cathedral he found two ancient sculptures of lions and copied supposed runic inscription. He believed that they represent Slavic deity "Černoboh" [Dark/Evil God] and that the inscription is evidence of the runic letters of the ancient Slavs. About his discovery he wrote to friends. Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795 – 1861) informed the scientific spheres and also German scientists began to occupy themselves with problems of the sculptures and inscrip-tion. Although the final achievements proved that the inscription was not real Slavic relic and sculptures were created in the Middle Ages, Kollár believed in their authenticity for the rest of his life. The discovery also influenced his later scholar activities, when he became a professor of Slavic archaeology and occupied himself with problems so-called "Prillwitz idols".

Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Bulgaria

Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum is published by Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and edited by the literary scholars of the Balkan Studies Masters and Doctoral Studies Program (Department of General, Indo-European, and Balkan Linguistics with the Faculty of Slavic Studies). This journal aims to encourage the study of Comparative Literature. The similarities and overlaps between less popular literatures and the well-researched canonical phenomena remain rather unexplored. Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum wants to give priority to such issues; to reconsider the clichéd notions of centres and peripheries, of one-way influences, temporary delays and topic deficiencies. It makes sense to seek the meaning of common affinities and trends, in other words – to look at what is positive, stimulating, and creative about the communication between literary and cultural phenomena. In fact, the Balkans are home to just a small share of the less researched literatures in the field of Comparative Literature. In Europe, we often know too little about our neighbours, unless they happen to be the French, German or British literatures.

Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum expresses itself in three languages: Bulgarian, French and English. It provides new opportunities for communication between scholars of Comparative Literature with the aim of a complete, conceptual and terminological understanding of new ideas within our field of research.

CVIKOVÁ, Jana: KU KONCEPTUALIZÁCII RODU V MYSLENÍ O LITERATÚRE. Bratislava : Ústav svetovej literatúry Slovenskej akadémie vied a ASPEKT, 2014.

Author(s): Ivana Hostová / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 1/2017