Slovenská literatúra

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Authors: Martin Navrátil

Review

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Authors: Dana Hučková

Review

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Authors: Edita Príhodová

The paper analyzes the editorial strategies used by Július Pašteka when preparing the eight volume book edition of Súborné dielo / The Complete Works of Janko Silan (1914 – 1984), published in the years 1995 – 1998 in the Lúč publishing house. The analysis is focused on three collections of poems from the edition corpus, which were published over a span of almost four decades of the 20th century (Kuvici / Little Owls, 1936; Piesne z Javoriny / Songs from Javorina, 1943; Oslnenie / Bedazzlement, 1969). It mainly takes notice of the issue of editorial respect for the original text and the extent and types of changes made to the manuscripts of individual collections. This is the basis for identifying their nature and typology. In all the three selected examples J. Pašteka corrected the orthographic erros in line with the current orthographic standard, non-systemic errors and typos. However, in some places he also changed the stylistics, which disrupted the original intention of the author. The only time he gave reasons for the stylistic changes was in the debut book Kuvici / Little Owls, referring to inexperience of the debut author, which can be seen as an act falling out of the editor s competence. Another conflict with the writer´s will and choice occurred in case of changing the composition of the collection Oslnenie / Bedazzlement, when in contrast with the original edition some of the poems were omitted.

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Authors: Miloslav Vojtech

The paper deals with the subject of the editorial and textological approaches to the texts of Slovak literature written in Bernolák´s Slovak in the years 1787 – 1852. It analyzes their typographic and orthographic particularities, it is concerned with variants of the orthographic standard at that time and presents methodological approaches to the subject of textology and editorial practice. In relation to the texts written in Bernolák´s Slovak, it identifies three editorial approaches which have been used in editorial practice since the mid-19th century. The first approach is represented by the editions which adapt the original language form of a text according to the current orthographic standard and the contemporary typographic rules; the second type is represented by the editions respecting the authentic language form of the original text, while they only eliminate some of the historical, archaic typographic particularities, and the third approach is related to updating literary texts written in Bernolák´s Slovak by translating them into contemporary Slovak. The paper also reflects on the overall approach of editors to texts written in Bernolák´s Slovak as textual sources and based on textological analyses of several editions, it deals with the issue of the quality of individual editorial procedures.

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Authors: Charles Sabatos

The Ottoman invasions are among the most significant historical events in Central European literature as well as popular culture. An important example is the legendary „well of love“ at Trenčín Castle, supposedly dug by the Turkish Omar in order to free his beloved Fatima, held in captivity by Stephen Zápolya. Despite its setting in the 1490s, this story was first published in German in the early nineteenth century by Hungarian nobleman Alois Freiherrn von Mednyánszky, which inspired Slovak poetic adaptations of this tale by Karol Štúr (1844) and Mikuláš Dohnány (1846). The narrative was popularized in several collections of „historical“ tales set in Slovakia’s castles by twentieth-century authors such as Ľudovít Janota, Jozef Branecký, Jozef Horák and Ján Domasta, as well as in Jozef Nižnánsky’s historical novel The Well of Love (1935), which provides a concrete political background for the legend. Although the story’s events and characters (other than Zápolya) are fictional, it remains today one of the most enduring love stories in Slovak culture. This article will analyze the textual development of this legend in relation to evolving definitions of national identity over the last two centuries.