Between the rural and the urban (the collection of Milo Urban’s novels Z tichého frontu [From the silent front], 1932)

The collection of short prose by Milo Urban (1904 – 1982) Z tichého frontu. Časové rozprávky (From the silent front. Temporal tales) published in 1932 brought a selection of the author’s mostly magazine-published prose from the second half of the 1920s. The study recapitulates period critical and la...

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Main Author: Karol Csiba
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Language:ces
Published: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slovak Literature 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/12161059SL_6-24-06.pdf
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modernism
deruralization
title Between the rural and the urban (the collection of Milo Urban’s novels Z tichého frontu [From the silent front], 1932)
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title_short Between the rural and the urban (the collection of Milo Urban’s novels Z tichého frontu [From the silent front], 1932)
title_sort between the rural and the urban the collection of milo urban s novels z ticheho frontu from the silent front 1932
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village – city
modernism
deruralization
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