Slovenska Literatura (Oct 2012)
František Švantner With Respect To Naturism And Gothicism
Abstract
The study suggests a view of the work by František Švantner, regarded as the most significant writer of Slovak Naturism, from the persepctive of Modernism in its wide sense as defined by the contemporary discourse of literary science as well as the discourse of cultural studies. Such a point of view results in a question whether it is necessary to include this author in the narrower context of Naturism, which makes his work seem less rich and the transformations of the Modernist paradigm in his creative life less clear. Therefore the study attempts to penetrate various concepts of modernity reflected in Švantner´s novellas, it attempts to show how complicated their genealogy is, since an important role in them is played by popular and post-Gothic literature. The literary material being analysed is the period of the writer´s creative life concluded with Nevesta hôľ /The Bride Of The Ridge/. And this is the piece of writing that proved to be the best literary material to be analysed from the perspective of Post-Gothicism, which is more and more often recognized in Modernism in its wide sense.
