Literárnokritické pohľady na poéziu Maše Haľamovej v 20.–21. storočí (exegéza v archívnom výskume)

Abstract

Literary-critical Views on the Poetry of Maša Haľamová in the 20th and the 21st Centuries (Exegesis in the Archive Research) The partial goal of our archive research in the Slovak National Library in Martin (unprocessed collection), aimed at the contextualisation of works written by Maša Haľamová (1908–1995), was to reconstruct the views of literary critics published in the press of that times or preserved in typescripts or manuscripts from the first half of the 20th century when her first collection of verse Dar (The Gift, 1928) came out. The summarised criticism (from 1928 to 2017) shows that the views of opinion-making specialists and literary scholars pointed out the specifics of her poetics, or intertextual and inter-literary relations towards the Czech literature, and confirmed her solitariness (she is difficult to categorise), but also her typical moral and ethical potential with the mark of nobility. As can be seen, it is the very spiritualness, confessionally anchored in the Protestant tradition, that gradually vanished from the perception of specialists which made room for alternative forms of expression, or even for the questioning the Christian spirituality.