Kováč, Mikuláš (1934–1992) Works   hu sk

Biography

Kováč's first book of poems came as a surprise to the literary community and immediately aroused interest in the author and his poetry. He introduced himself as a sensitive and original poet confirming these qualities in his later books. He breaks reality into numerous surprising images with associative impact. When building
a verse he seeks his own shape with daring structure and modern architectural form. He certainly has a sense for short cuts, knowing how to create the right atmosphere and to evoke a ravishing, even devastating experience using simple means. His vision of things and the world is very rich. The issues are diverse. He goes back to his childhood years during the Second World War (concentration camps, execution of prisoners, deportations of Jews, children suffering, drastic war images, social problems, the reality of everyday life etc.) seeing them through a strong desire for justice. The past is relived painfully in symbolic poetical abbreviation. Even in later books the author still dwells on themes of the Slovak National Uprising, war, his childhood and homeland enriched by his personal experience in time and space. He seeks ethical and aesthetic values of human life that were approved and confirmed by time.  war and violence. Human dimensions of the often inhuman life conditions are the essential feature of his poetry. (Viktor Timura)

With one stroke of his pen he writes poems about war, love and everyday life. This is certainly one of his assets. He is the poet of children and childhood, of antiwar themes and work, even the most ordinary, which he depicts with pathetic creative accent. Kováč succeeded in convincing us of this with the quality of his poems, his mastery of modern means of expression and ability to let simple things shine and speak to us. (Jozef Mihalkovič)

The power of Mikuláš Kováč has been and still is in his passionate and contrasting vision of facts in their naked poeticised form. (...) I knew Mikuláš Kováč as a poet of sharp, passionate and contrasting vision. (Milan Hamada)
 
Poetry:
- Zem pod nohami (1960)
- Obrana stavebnice (1963)
- Rozmery (1964)
- O modrej labuti (1966)
- Písanie do snehu (1978)
- Zemnica (1978)
- Rodinná pošta (1980)
- Pod slnkom (1986)
- Prekročiť prah (2014, 1.issue)
- Všetci ste v mojom srdci prítomní (2014, 1.issue)

For children and youth
- O drobinkovi, najmenšom kráľovi na svete (1966)
- Gašparko a strašní lúpežníci (1971)
- Paneláci, dobrí vtáci (1985)

Radio production
- Vyskoč Janko a strašní lúpežníci (1977, rozhlasová hra pre deti, 1977)
- Dvojportrét (1979, rozhlasová

Source:
- http://www.litcentrum.sk/en/slovenski-spisovatelia/mikulas-kovac

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