S túžbou po ideáli (Svetozár Hurban Vajanský: Kotlín)
A Desire for An Ideal (Svetozár Hurban Vajanský: Kotlín)
Dana Kršáková
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Rok, strany / Year, pages: 2005, 14-24
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Publikované / Published: 8. 10. 2018
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The novel Kotlín (As a Melting Pot 1901) written by Svetozár Hurban Vajanský (1847 - 1916) is the last author’s large novel and it is also a final summary of his novels from the 80th betweenand 90th of the 19th c.. It is a last one in the sequence of Suchá ratolesť (The Dryed Offspring, 1884), Pustokvet (Howling Flower,1893), Koreň a výhonky (The Root and the Springs, 1895 – 1896). It was written mainly in connection with the first one but with clear ideological evaluation. Kotlín was Vajanský´s „historiographic“ respond to actual social course of life, his reaction to political and national problems in Slovakia in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th c. From the aspect of genre and style it is a heterogeneous text, predominately political, with some features of rather political pamphlet, an over temporal novel, depicting actual problems from the public life of the Slovak society, and also a key novel, as a „type of the novel based on an effect of revealing known personalities under the masks of fictive characters“. The attractiveness of the novel for a reader also comes from a line of a family novel with a love story. Secession and decadent line describe the contemporary ideological atmosphere at the turn of centuries. A main character, Andrej Lutišič, is a typical decadent not just by his philosophy, feelings, ways of life, a young elderly man from the period of fin de siècle, a represent of Turgenev´s „useless man“ and Spielhagen´s „problematic nature“. In spite of the fact that the decadent line is striking, it should not been forgotten that a picture of a decadent as well as the atmosphere of fin de siècle was his primarily depicted from the position of anti-decadence. The fundamental gesture of the author was such that pragmatically-activistic and broken, unbalanced heroes of it have no perspective. From the aspect of values in the novel a documentary line persisted the longest time. Because of it Kotlín could be a literary testimony of processes of political and economic and social modernisation in Slovakia at the turn of centuries, of course, with regard to Vajanský´s effort to create an ideal reality, to transform ideals into real facts.
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