Canadian Slavonic Papers, September 1st, 2003
ABSTRACT: Albert Skarvan (1869-1926) is regarded today as a figure of some importance in Slovak literature. Though he played no part in political life, he was an enthusiastic cultural nationalist and an advocate of the use of the Slovak vernacular for literature. His Memoirs of an Army Doctor (1920), republished in 1992, reveal the mindset of a Tolstoyan antimilitarist. They also present a unique picture of conditions prevailing in military prisons of the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1895 Skarvan, who was then near the completion of his conscript service, had, large...
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