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In the introductory part of the study, Down syndrome is briefly described as innate genetic disorder, where intellect is usually within the level of mild and moderate intellectual disability. The second part of the study offers brief overview of a person with Down syndrome as an object of literary portrayal in the production for children and youth in Slovakia since the 19th century to the present time. In the third part there are analysed and interpreted characteristic features of such a literary text, which was c...

The problem of Dostoevsky and antiquity was raised at the beginning of the 20th century in the works of V. Ivanov and L. Pumpyanskiy, but has not yet received consistent study. The authors of the works on Dostoevsky usually deal with particular aspects of this problem. Dostoevsky knew and highly appreciated ancient literature and often addressed it in his works. The article deals with the development of the principles of the ancient tragedy in Dostoevsky's work on the example of "The Diary of a Writer" and the nov...

The study "Art of Confession in В«The Art of ConversationВ» by Ileana Vulpescu" is an application in Literature & Poetry, Romanian Literary Portraits field and women`s psychology in particular. For a writer, reality is important as a source of inspiration, but the most important aspect is the human investment the writer does in his work. Sanziana Hangan is a hypostasis of the writer who protests by writing against the communist obsessive decade. It analyses female feminine psychology during the existent communist ...

The given study covers an actual interdisciplinary issue – Russian language, post-Soviet Russian literature in particular, that includes the "otherness" of multiple ethnic cultures and creates unique images of the world. In the modern conventional sense, culture is replaced by transculture – a space of interaction and mutual repulsion, intertwinement, constellation, overlapping, flowing of cultures into one another. These processes have no and can't have any solidified, final forms that would be determined onc...

The main character of Jaroslav HasekВ’s The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes during the World War has become one of the Czech legendary heroes. The article deals with the reception of the book abroad in connection to the English translation of the novel. At the beginning, it presents various opinions in the literary criticsВ’ dispute whether Svejk is a suitable representative of the Czech nation abroad. This section culminates by looking for answers to the question who Josef Svejk really is and how to character...

V.MakaninВ’s artistic world is analysed as an ontological model of correlation between social and personal universes, which is disharmonious in its essence. One of the reasons that makes this situation possible is a gap formed between the masculine and the feminine sides of the contemporary world. The suggested study provides an analysis of V.MakaninВ’s evaluation given to the model of contemporary civilization created by men and for men: this evaluation is related to crisis and hopelessness. In turn, a woman is m...

Sources, editing the private letters promotes establishing a strong basis for scientific The article highlights the importance of the scholarly edition of the famous personsВ’ epistolary legacy: writers, historians or public figures, emphasizes that together with the historical documents, epigraphic monuments and editions of the corpus of different other writing research: gathering-systematizing them in one edition and deeper examining is the best source for familiarizing with the private life and public work of p...

The authors of the article talk about the phenomenon of Internet poetry from the perspective of a new communication model, in which a broadcast channel of the Online Network affects the distribution of all other elements, including the sender, the destination user and the text. Poems by Stefania Danilova, the Runet star, served as material for analysis, proving that the cyber space can generate not only informational "junk", but also create highly artistic content that "stabilizes" the linguistic taste of the era ...

The study brings forward the results of analysis and interpretation of legends and social prose for youth, which deal with coexistence of majority population and Roma ethnic group in Slovakia. In the introduction, brief history of Roma people in Slovakia and the term “romipen” is described. Research of the literary material was realised on the basis of one’s own – different – alien trichotomy. Its goal was to find out: 1. what are the modifications of mental image about coexistence of Roma with non-Roma i...

The Proclamation of Independence of Latvia by the People's Council of Latvia on November 18, 1918 called Proclamation Day of the Republic of Latvia became the most important date in self-awareness of the Latvian people. In the interwar period, the 18th of November became a public holiday uniting all nations and ethnical groups inhabiting Latvia. The establishment of the independent country also caused reflection on this event – gradually increased a necessity to study historical circumstances, preconditions and ...

In the paper we focus on foreign literature for children and young adults in Slovak translations. The criterion for our choice was the presence of the character with disability. We deal with two books, which were published in Slovak translation in recent five years: A social novel Aristoteles a Dante spoznГЎvajГє svet a tajomstvГЎ vesmГ­ru (Benjamin Alire SГЎenz: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, 2012; Slovak translation in 2016) and a novel with fairy-tale features ГљВћasnГЎ cesta Barnabyh...

Annexation of the Baltic states within the Soviet Union in 1940 affected all spheres of life, including culture. Writers and their texts were intentionally selected for being circulated outside the territory of each subject of the USSR. One of the ideological tasks of the Soviet socialist republic writers’ unions was creating an impression that peoples incorporated in the whole territory of the USSR have willingly joined the Soviet Union and agree to replacing their national languages by a single official – Rus...

Milan Kundera is widely known especially for his novels written in Czech, only much later he began to write his fiction in French. Rather paradoxically, it was only when he had become a French citizen that Kundera started to write systematically about the Central European novel as a specific phenomenon with highly original features, e. g. polythematic structure, lack of great epic stories, a tendency to essayism, and an ironical approach to the author’s homeland. His novels are very often based on playful or gro...

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) is along with Jaroslav HaВљek and Milan Kundera one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century; his works are translated into 27 foreign languages. In the period from 1989 to 1992, Hrabal wrote a series of fictional letters addressed to Dubenka (April Gifford), a visiting American student who became the muse of his later years. These half-imaginary letters were never sent to her, though their relationship was very close and even intimate. Therefore, it is necessary to ask a questi...

Numerous films, documentaries and novels including their film versions in the 21st century are evidence of interest in analysing the recent history. This article focuses on the two totalitarian systems that have again become a discussed issue in German prose after the year 2000, and examines different approaches to the history and different choice of topics of historical events by authors of both the old and new German federal states. The authors from the former West Germany have the tendency to address the follow...

Igor Hajek belongs among the personalities who played an essential role in presenting Czech literature abroad. The paper aims to illustrate his work reflecting his viewpoint of two important books by Josef Skvorecky, namely The Cowards, a novel capturing the atmosphere of the last days of the Second World War, and The End of the Nylon Age, a novella set in the world of the fading glory of the post-war Czechoslovak democracy, and shows the clash of two worlds, which is SkvoreckyВ’s favourite topic. HajekВ’s origina...

The genre of travelogue is regarded as one of the most readable in the contemporary North American literature. Its popularity has grown in the latest decades due to the processes of globalization and new technological developments in the world. People travel a lot; new, exotic places become of utmost interest; new typologically various travelogues appear. The question of belonging of travel narrative to fiction or non-fiction remains disputable; the frames of each are very controversial. Thus, the aim of the prese...

Traditionally, mass media have been viewed as channels for the dissemination of public information. With effective strategies, mass media can be a platform for diverse and dynamic two-way flows of information enabling better social and individual decisions. Most papers and training courses entitled В‘Theatre and Mass MediaВ’ consider the media specificity of the theatre itself in terms of the adaptation of canonical plays for cinema or/and television. But there are other dimensions, too. First, the performative th...

Today the definition ‘Transnational Literature’ is used by some Russian philologists to determine the layer of Literature that can not be unequivocally attributed to a particular national literature. If, for example, the works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are directly connected with Russian Literature and culture, then there are still difficulties with regard to Literature created by non-Russian writers in Russian. During the Soviet period, Russian-language Literature (Russophone Literature – alternative term) wa...

Nowadays the debate on national character has become one of the central issues in the context of ever-growing globalization tendencies and the most recent expressions of nationalism. Contrary to the big nations that most often take for granted who they are, the Latvians have always dwelled upon the aspects of their identity and a range of issues associated with it. Being the “culture of a closed type”, i.e. an issue of an individual choice, Latvianness acquires also the features of the “culture of the open t...