Slovenská literatúra

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Authors: Katarína Badžgoňová

From academic life

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Authors: Martin Navrátil

Review

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Authors: Vladimír Barborík

The paper Vladimír Petrík´s Library is an attempt at „reading“ of a library from the perspective of the relation between the library and the owner. The inheritance left by literary scientist and critic Vladimír Petrík includes over 6000 books, which were accumulated and used by him during his life. Understanding the type, genre, functional and time structures of his library, i.e. the relations between the volumes accumulated in it, enables complementing the already well-known bibliographic profile of the owner, looking at his personality through this kind of specific cultural memory, which library is, understanding oscillation between professional orientation and reading as a personal interest, which becomes a necessity. The analysis of Vladimír Petrík´s library leads to the conclusion that although he was a „man of books“, he was not fetishistic about them. They served his main interest, which was literature.

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Authors: Michal Jareš

Vladimír Petrík, together with Kornel Földvári, was a pioneer of Slovak „detective studies“. This study deals with Slovak detective novels from the 1960s, which Petrík reflected on. It shows attempts to establish an original Slovak detective story and identifies its basic problems. In particular, they are not very well-managed genres, textual misconducts, specializing in the story of historical problems and historical events (Slovak National Uprising, emigration). The study points to the important form in which many detective novels have been published. It follows the interwar production in Czechoslovakia, which was unique in the 1960s.

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Authors: Tereza Šmídová – Marcin Filipowicz

The goal of the paper is to map the Czecho-Slovak community in the field of contemporary fan fiction inspired by the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling as a follow-up to the tradition of research into the Czecho-Slovak literary and culural relations. It is built on the conception of a „peculiar literary community“ of the Czechs and the Slovaks formulated by Dionýz Ďurišin. What is then analyzed is the space of Czecho-Slovak websites administered by so-called fans for fans. The activities of the Czecho-Slovak community in the field of fan fiction cannot be summarized easily due to several reasons including the fact that the relations within the community are continuously developing and changing. The existence of the Czecho-Slovak literary community mainly influenced by nostalgia and personal mindsets of individual debaters is seemingly dominated by disruptive moments strongly motivated by rivarly between the two nations. That is mostly reflected in the debates about the Czech or Slovak translations of the original text. However, it is necessary to note that the community (so-called fandom) sees itself as Czecho-Slovak and the most-visited websites are declared to be Czecho-Slovak, too. Regardless of the most noticeable manifestations of non-togetherness, the fact that the common Czecho-Slovak space exists, what´s more spontaneously, without any ideological prompting, and provides place for linguistic debates, actually gives witness to strong cultural togetherness. The paper does not only attempt to follow in the research tradition but also to shift the focus that has so far been given to high literature to popular literature and culture, which is the area where the Czecho-Slovak community currently seems to be most active.