{"id":449,"date":"2024-07-30T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T07:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uslit.sav.sk\/en\/?p=449"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:40:44","slug":"miroslav-valek-three-stages-of-canonicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/miroslav-valek-three-stages-of-canonicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Miroslav V\u00e1lek: Three Stages of Canonicity"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Lithuanian peer-reviewed journal Colloquia<\/em> No. 53 published a study by our colleague Viliam N\u00e1daskay, \u201cMiroslav V\u00e1lek: Three Stages of Canonicity\u201d.
\nHow did the position of the poet, who was also an important politician, change in the Slovak literary canon? How do we deal with his politically attuned poems, which are currently marginalised or demonised?<\/div>\n
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The article focuses on the seminal Slovak poet Miroslav V\u00e1lek (1927\u20131991) and his place in the Slovak literary canon. It reconstructs V\u00e1lek\u2019s literary trajectory, from being a poet of individualist and intimate verse who entered Slovak literature during the political thaw and liberalisation, as an important voice of the generation, to a poet who inclined towards long associative poems with political overtones, culminating in his controversial book-length poem in the 1970s, during his no less controversial time as minister of culture of the Slovak Socialist Republic. Based on the critical reception and publishing history of V\u00e1lek\u2019s poetry, the paper pays attention to shifts and ambiguities in the poet\u2019s position in both the socialist and post-socialist literary canons. Despite certain fluctuations, the basis of his image remains the same, rooted in his own poetic programme, which coincided with the preferred image of a poet\u2019s work at the time: V\u00e1lek was and remains both a poet and a politician, a poet of inner turmoil, and a poet of social and political being. The difference the paper attempts to describe is that the socialist literary canon did not differentiate between these extremes (at least in official literary criticism), whereas the Slovak post-socialist canon, which is generally sceptical towards political tones in art, makes the distinction clearly.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lithuanian peer-reviewed journal Colloquia No. 53 published a study by our colleague Viliam N\u00e1daskay, \u201cMiroslav V\u00e1lek: Three Stages of Canonicity\u201d. How did the position…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19,20,16,15,18,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}