ČEKŲ, SLOVAKŲ IR LIETUVIŲ ESĖ SAMPRATOS ŠIANDIEN: DVI SKIRTINGOS STILIAUS SFERŲ DOMINANTĖS

Author(s): Aneta Petrová / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 1/2015

Contemporary essay is widely-known and has gained significant popularity in Czech and Slovak cultural space, as well as in Lithuanian cultural space. However, we should keep in mind that the Czech-Slovak essay does not necessarily have to be identical to the Lithuanian essay, despite the fact that both cultures use the same term for these texts – esej in Czech, esė in Lithuanian. To compare how essay is understood in both environments, this paper applies the concept of the dominant to the Czech-Slovak and Lithuanian essay. Our understanding of the dominant follows Czech linguistic tradition; in particular, it was inspired by Roman Jakobson’s and Jan Mukařovský’s definitions of the dominant. If we apply the concept of the dominant to different groups of text, it becomes clear that each of them is characterized by a common feature. Striving to deliver profound – as opposed to trivial – knowledge is the basic requirement for the sphere of professional (for example, scientific or technical) texts whose main purpose is to convey facts and information. For belles-lettres texts, aesthetic qualities are absolutely essential. Finally, manifests of author personality are typical for publicistic texts. The Czech-Slovak essay is situated among these three groups of texts, and it is clear that all of the mentioned features are distinctly pronounced in it.

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.

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).

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.

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

Živé miesto komparatistiky v kultúrnom dialógu (estónsky prínos)

Author(s): Ladislav Franek / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2018

The explanation of the term comparative literary studies on the basis of Slovak theorists (M. Bakoš, D. Ďurišin, A. Popovič, L. Franek) from the 1960s to present. The contribution of the Spanish comparatist Claudio Guillén. The tension between the local, national and supranational. The role of the Estonian comparative literature association under the leadership of Jüri Talvet. His term the symbiotic aspect of postmodern culture (2009). The importance of comparative research with the aim of preserving the cultural legacy of nations. The variety of cultural reflections of the Estonian comparatist on the current situation in various parts of the world. The necessity to preserve the metaphorical-poetic vision of the world while respecting the relationship between the artist, nature and society. The illustration of the symbiotic aspect through Ladislav Franek’s translation of some of Talvet’s poems.

Socialist Realism in the Context of Existentialism: D. Tatarka and his Novel The Birthday Cake

Author(s): Marcela Antošová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

This study is a free continuation of our monograph Dominik Tatarka in the context of existentialism, the aim of which was to grasp the central work of D. Tatarka through the perspective of existentialism. Within the interpretive analyzes, however, we did not deal with the writer’s key works of the so-called socialist realism in the mentioned publication, which means the works The First and Second Strike, The Years of Companionship and The Birthday Cake, because they required a separate approach due to their specificity and their relation to the communist regime. We gradually began to compensate the mentioned deficit, the elimination of which will enable a more comprehensive grasp of the existentialism issue in the author’s work, in the form of partial studies. In them, through the view of existentialism, we deal with the works The First and Second Strike and The Years of Companionship. The presented study solves the mentioned problem in the last novel from this line, meaning in the novel The Birthday Cake, and in this direction closes the question of existentialism in Tatarka’s key works of socialist realism.

Czarnogóra wyobrażona? Dziennik podróży V Dalmáci a na Čiernej hore Martina Kukučína

Author(s): Aleksandra Hudymač / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The article is devoted to the first part of the Balkan travel journal entitled Travel Features, written by the Slovak prose writer Martin Kukučín 1898. The text deals with the image of Montenegro in the context of the tension between its stereotypical and real image. Montenegro is studied here in the context of the cognitive triangle: landscape – femininity – masculinity. Kukučín looks at the most fundamental stereotypes and self-stereotypes about Montenegro, such as the myth of heroism, amputated femininity or the harshness and inaccessibility of the Montenegrin landscape. In his tale, on the basis of a palimpsest, elements intricate and problematizing the unambiguous image of Montenegro are woven.

Autobiografizm w prozie Jána Roznera – wybrane zagadnienia

Author(s): Rafał Majerek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The paper focuses on autobiographical aspects of Ján Rozner’s prose, which was published in Slovakia after his death (2006), and soon became a great literary sensation. In three books: Sedem dní do pohrebu (Seven Days to the Funeral, 2009), Noc po fronte (The Night after the Front, 2010), Výlet na Devín (The Trip to the Devín Castle, 2011) Rozner, a leading communist journalist and critic of the 1950s, then one of the active proponents of the Prague Spring’s democratization process, thrown out of work and blacklisted after the Soviet invasion in Czechoslovakia in 1968, finally in emigration in Germany after 1976 – combines individual problems with social and cultural issues making a specific interpretation of his own life, his intimate affairs and political choices. His writing can be considered as a kind of therapeutic process, especially the novel Seven Days to the Funeral, in which the author deals with death of his wife, Zora Jesenská, distinguished translator, mainly from the Russian literature. In the article the novel is interpreted as a literary attempt to cope with the pain caused by the great loss, but also as a kind of engaged, subjective reflection on history and politics with its devastating impact on people’s lives.

„Čo oko nevidí, srdce nebolí” alebo motív očí v básnickej zbierke „Reptajúca pokora” Ondreja Štefanka

Author(s): Ramona Zăvoianu-Petrovici / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2020

The article is aimed at arguing the existing link between Ondrej Štefanko’s program as a writer, and self-projection while referring to set of poems he wrote before 1989. Our working hypothesis is that through the poetic visual perception of the world a confrontation of projections or self-projections is depicted, which the poet expresses metaphorically through the motif of the eye or vision. Our working methodology is framed by the theory of egolinguistics and the confrontation of self-projections as exposed by the Slovak famous linguist Juraj Dolnı́k and further completed with the cognitive approach to literature and mainly the theory related to emotions. We thus aim at uncovering another dimension of the text, while achieving a different reading and interpretation of the motif of the eye and in the end at better understanding the poet’s implicit poetic mission. Our approach to Ondrej Štefanko’s poems combines the perspective of egolinguistics with the cognitive approach to literature.

Postmodernul „Mereu verde...”

Author(s): Raluca Daniela Mihai / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

Literature has always taken the shape of a manifest, the indulgement of thoughts, feelings, phantasms and uprising, times and often expressing that inner courage to take a step, say something, unravel with writing being the entity that completes it through the transfer of thoughts and ideas in the best possible way. Literature is on a path of continuous change and its` cycles have the urge to always bring something new, a new way of thinking, this being the set in which postmodernism came to light, a cosmopolite phenomenon that brought along a denial to the majority of the techniques used in literature, this giving literature a new face in a new and original way by studying people in their everyday life not by creating an exact copy of reality but rather by generating a fictional world to represent reality. Slovak literature has seen remarkable changes when, at the end of the nineteenth century, it has entered a new stage, creating adequate conditions conducive to modern literature, given the changes in the social condition of the writer. Literary life will undergo a major change on the topic of literary works, but also the method of creation, which is destined to highlight the artistic virtues of the writer and altogether satisfying taste reader. Among those who contributed to the development of good translations in English, which broke into the phenomenon of postmodernism, have brought attention writings literature, facilitated change the image of their own people, the spirit, contributing to the evolution of literary canon in Slovakia was writer Pavel Vilikovský, slovak writer, journalist and translator. It has become increasingly known as a literary figure major post-communist period in Central Europe.

Ľudovít Štúr – personalitate emblematică a slovacilor

Author(s): Dagmar Maria Anoca / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 4/2015

This paper is focused on Ľudovít Štúr (28. 10. 1815 Uhrovec – 12. 1. 1856 Modra), emblematic personality of Slovaks. His prodigious activity in the field of linguistics, literature, politics, organizing the struggle for the emancipation of the people, education etc. is presented in its important points. It emphasized the role of literary language encoder (Slovak language Science, 1846) and the literary theorist (About songs and stories of Slavic nations), without being neglected his poetic creations (Songs and Singing, 1853).

Recepcia tvorby Dagmar Márie Anoca v slovenskom vojvodinskom kontexte

Author(s): Zuzana Čížiková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2014

The report is about the reception of Dagmar Mária Anoca’s literary work in Slovak Vojvodina context, mainly according to bibliographical review of her books in the magazine for literature and culture Nový život, and a few key studies about her and the places where her work is reflected. D. M. Anoca is present in Slovak Vojvodina context mostly as a poet and literary scientist. According to cultural and literal municipality in Vojvodina, she is regarded as a university pedagogue, a writer for children, a linguist, a theorist, a cultural agent, a persistent researcher of literature, cultural activity, and history of Romanian Slovaks and Slovaks living in southern parts from Slovakia, and recently as a translator from Romanian language, too. The main focus was on her poetic work, followed by poetry for children, linguistic and literary-historic work, while the reception of prose work in Slovak Vojvodina context was missing at the time of the publishing.

Ďalšia literárna príručka. Patrik Šenkár: Slovenská poézia, próza a dráma po roku 1989.

Author(s): Ladislav Čúzy / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2013

Review of: Ďalšia literárna príručka. Patrik Šenkár: Slovenská poézia, próza a dráma po roku 1989. Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa, Nitra 2011. Edícia Knižnica Zošitov Katedry areálových kultúr FSŠ - zv. 9. 176 strán, ISBN 978-80-8094-898-6. (Ladislav Čúzy)

Milo Urban şi mutaţiile prozei slovace în perioada interbelică a secolului al XX-lea

Author(s): Dagmar Maria Anoca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2012

The paper is focused on the contribution of the Slovak writer, novelist Milo Urban (1904-1983), between two world wars, period of the great changes in Slovak culture and literature.

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”,