Beschreibung
On the basis of the literary work and life of one of the Charta 77 signatories, Dominik Tatarka, this work addresses the topic of dissident literature. By the use of the comparative method Slovak literature is analysed alongside other literatures of Central Europe, as well as French.
Autorenportrait
Mária Bátorová, (Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences and Pedagogical Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava) specializes in German literature, Slavic literatures and comparative literature. For political reasons she was banned from publishing until 1989. In 1995–1998 she taught at the University of Cologne, Germany. In 2011 she founded the Center for research in comparative literature KD at the Pedagogical faculty of Comenius University. In her seven scientific monographs and other articles she studies the problematique of repressed and tabooized themes of Slovak literary history of the 20th Century. Using a new comparative method, she reconstructs the place of Slovak literary modernism in the context of European literary modernism. She is also known as a literary author and essayist. Her works were translated into 8 languages. Her monograph Jozef Cíger Hronský und die europäische Moderne (Jozef Cíger Hronský and European modernism) was published by Peter Lang Publishers in 2004. Her most recent monograph is Dominik Tatarka – slovenský Don Quijote (Dominik Tatarka – The Slovak Don Quijote) was published by Veda in 2012.
Inhalt
Contents: Internal emigration as a gesture of freedom (Dominik Tatarka and Ludvík Vaculík after 1968) – Traces of «autobiography» in fiction (On the question of authenticity of an artistic work – Essays on culture (Aesthetic and political opinions) – Types of depiction – Water as the Beginning and End (The water motif) – The relationship of nature and culture in Slovak literary modernism – The Adventure of Humanity (Dominik Tatarka and Albert Camus) – Freedom and dreams – Political systems of the 20th century and Tatarka’s Community of God – Tatarka’s multilayered identity (The myth and reality of the author’s archai) – The relativistic and materialistic perception of mankind (The postmodern and the work of Dominik Tatarka).
