Contemporary critical reception of the novel Agáty /Black Locusts/ (in Slovak press)
Ladislav Ballek´s novel Agáty (Black Locusts) was published in 1981. It was the time of normalization - political totalitarianism, which made every effort to regulate art production and declared socialist realism to be the only right creative method. Since writing truly about the present (and having...
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Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slovak Literature
2012-02-01
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| description | Ladislav Ballek´s novel Agáty (Black Locusts) was published in 1981. It was the time of normalization - political totalitarianism, which made every effort to regulate art production and declared socialist realism to be the only right creative method. Since writing truly about the present (and having the writings published) was impossible, and so was employing the techniques forged by the 1960s prose writers who had sought ways to realize their creative ambitions without abandoning their principles. As for the topics, the writers began to prefer history and their childhood times, they fled to topic exile. In the field of literary criticism there was an ongoing latent disagreement between the critcs applying ideological criteria and those leaning on aesthetical views. The author of the article tracks the contemporary reception of that significant novel in question (the reviews and studies published shortly after its release), pays attention to the critics´ argumentation. The work was definitely well-received, however one group of the critics used ideological terminology as well as ideological reasoning in their positive assessments, whereas the other group consistently adhered to aesthetical criteria. Two faces of Slovak literary criticism can thus be shown through the analysis of Ballek´s Agáty´s reception. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f81d6f81b17d4ad0a2a0daad8c33801c2023-08-23T12:01:33ZcesSlovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slovak LiteratureSlovenska Literatura0037-69732012-02-015914250Contemporary critical reception of the novel Agáty /Black Locusts/ (in Slovak press)Igor Hochel0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4994-2723UKF, NitraLadislav Ballek´s novel Agáty (Black Locusts) was published in 1981. It was the time of normalization - political totalitarianism, which made every effort to regulate art production and declared socialist realism to be the only right creative method. Since writing truly about the present (and having the writings published) was impossible, and so was employing the techniques forged by the 1960s prose writers who had sought ways to realize their creative ambitions without abandoning their principles. As for the topics, the writers began to prefer history and their childhood times, they fled to topic exile. In the field of literary criticism there was an ongoing latent disagreement between the critcs applying ideological criteria and those leaning on aesthetical views. The author of the article tracks the contemporary reception of that significant novel in question (the reviews and studies published shortly after its release), pays attention to the critics´ argumentation. The work was definitely well-received, however one group of the critics used ideological terminology as well as ideological reasoning in their positive assessments, whereas the other group consistently adhered to aesthetical criteria. Two faces of Slovak literary criticism can thus be shown through the analysis of Ballek´s Agáty´s reception.https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/01181330--SL-2012-1-hochel-42-50.pdfl. ballek's nove! agáty (black locusts)literary-critical receptionthe situation of criticismpromotion of socialist realismideological criteriaaesthetical criteria |
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