Slavdom: A Selection of his Writings, in Prose and Verse - Couverture rigide

Stúr, Ľudovít

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1914337026 ISBN 13 : 9781914337024

Editeur : Glagoslav Publications Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

'Why do you whimper and wail, O Tatra streams and rivers, who carry your plaintive lament resounding to the sea?' asks the narrator toward the end of The Slovaks, in Ancient Days, and Now. They respond: 'Because our human compatriots do not join together in memory, as we our waters mix with our origin, and because their lives do not resound booming, but roll on unconsciously, like hidden streams, silently to the sea of the life of the nations, young man!' This quotation from the most famous prose work of Ľudovít Stúr (1815 - 1856) might be set as a motto to the literary career of Slovakia's greatest Romantic poet, publicist, and political activist. For all of Stúr's writings aim at one goal: the propagation of the national traditions of the Slovaks in an age when their nation was threatened with such repression from the Magyar majority in Hungary, that the complete extinction of the Slovak language and culture was a real possibility.

Slavdom: A Selection of his Writings in Prose and Verse, presents the reader with a wide selection of the creative output of a great Slovak writer, and an important Pan-Slav thinker. Divided in three parts: 'Slovakia, ' 'Pan-Slavism' and 'Russia, ' it reflects the development of Stúr's thought, from his insistence on the importance of the Slovak past and the quality of Slovak culture, through his attempts to find a modus vivendi within the Austro-Hungarian Empire by uniting all of the Slavic nations of Austria together in a federation under the Habsburg crown (Austro-Slavism) to his arguments for all Slavs to unite under the hegemony of Russia, when the events following the Spring of the Peoples in 1848 proved Austro-Slavism a dead alley. Slavdom offers a generous selection of Stúr's writings, from Slavic apologetics such as The Contribution of the Slavs to European Civilisation though selections of his poetry, chiefly, the two great chansons de geste centring on the ancient Great Moravian Empire: Svatoboj and Matús of Trenčín. A must read for anyone interested in Slovak literature, Pan-Slavism, and European Romanticism in general.

This book was published with a financial support from SLOLIA, Centre for Information on Literature in Bratislava.

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À propos des auteurs

Ľudovít Velislav Stúr, known in his era as Ludevít Stúr, was a Slovakian revolutionary politician and writer. As a leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, and the author of the Slovak language standard, he is lauded as one of the most important figures in Slovak history. Stúr was an organizer of the Slovak volunteer campaigns during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He was also a politician, poet, journalist, publisher, teacher, philosopher, linguist and member of the Hungarian Parliament.

Charles S. Kraszewski is a poet and translator, creative in both English and Polish. He is the author of three volumes of original verse in English (Diet of Nails; Beast; Chanameed); and one in Polish: Hallo, Sztokholm. He translates from Polish, Czech and Slovak into English, and from English and Spanish into Polish. Recently, his English version of Jan Kochanowski's Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys was produced at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. He is a member of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad (London) and of the Association of Polish Writers (SPP, Kraków).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Glagoslav Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914337026
• ISBN 13: 9781914337024
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 366
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible