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On the Ľudovít Štúr's travelogue The Journey into Lusatia (written in the spring 1839)

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017

Abstract

The article focuses on marginal work of one of the most important representatives of the Slovak national revival. Ľudovít Štúr during his studies in Halle visited Lusatia and issued travel book Journey into Lusatia (written in the spring 1839). The text follows on the one hand, typical features of the revivalist manuscript (especially contemporary cliché), on the other hand, we illustrate the lack of a typical romantic stylization.

The travelogue of Ľudovít Štúr is a type of utopian architectural concepts monolithic and compact Slavs, who played in the first half of the 19th century an important role in the birth of the nation. Ľudovít Štúr offers a different kind of a patriotic travelogue than the one advocated in the literature, eg. Ján Kollár.