New issue: Slavica litteraria 2020, No. 2

The second number of the journal Slavica litteraria for 2020 brings a series of articles written in Czech, English, Slovak, and Russian focusing on a wide range of literary phenomena, mainly in a comparative perspective, from the first English translation of Jan/Ján Kollár up to the subject of the town as a factor of the formation of Ukrainian identity. The central position is occuppied by a conceptual contribution on Jewish literature in the framework of three identities, and the application of the cognitive method to the interpretation of a concrete text in the field of literary criticism,  as well as a treatise on Vašica’s interpretation of the personalities of Cyril and Methodius, apostels of the Slavs,  or an inventive article on Jesus Christ as a character of the novel At Daggers Drawn/Na nožach of the Russian writer, who recently came into fashion, Nikolai Leskov; one can find here also an essay from Polish and general comparative studies (painting and literature). In the section Materials and Discussions there are essays on Dostoevsky, postwar Polish prose, and on minority literatures; the section called Jubilees and Obituaries follows; the Review section  covers a wide cluster of problems from world literature through partial subjects of Slavonic literatures up to the genre of biography. The two reports concern the world transformations and the language and literature of the Jews in interdisciplinary context.