Slovenska Literatura (Feb 2015)
tre ELin in Wartime Bratislava: the Character of the Magazine and the Circumstances of Its lbblishing between the Years 1939 - 1944
Abstract
It was exactly seventy years ago when the art and literature monthly Elán, a project shared by poet and editor Ján Smrek and publisher Leopold Mazáč, was moved to the wartime capital of Slovakia. Although originally its establishing and existence were closely related to Prague, signing the contract with the Slovak Writers´ Society on 29 September 1939 made it possible to transfer the magazine to Bratislava, where it was then published until its end in 1947. The goal of the paper is to present the basic yet little known facts about the wartime period of publishing the magazine and to show to what extent the new economic situation as well as the new geopolitical and social context affected its character. The study primarily builds on researching archive materials, Elán´s wartime issues and selected contemporary print media. It is a follow-up to the study Deviatka osudová pre Elán i jeho redaktora /The Nine Fateful for Both the Magazine and Its Editor/, dealing with the circumstances of transferring the magazine to Bratislava, published in Slovenská literatúra in 2010.
