A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF YUGOSLAV – SLOVAK CULTURAL AND LITERARY CONNECTIONS

Abstract

This paper focuses on the mutual Yugoslav – Slovak contact in the 18th and 19th centuries established by the Slovak representative of literary realism, Svetozar Hurban Vajanski, and his father, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, with prominent representatives of Serbian cultural and literary life during the period when Serbian young men went to study to Bratislava. Later these contacts were strengthened through family ties in the Vojvodinian setting, when S. H. Vajanski visited Stara Pazova, and through contacts with leading representatives of Serbian literary life. The paper also focuses on Yugoslav motives in the works of S. H. Vajanski.