A Collector’s Knapsack. The Notebooks of Božena Němcová
| Pages | 90-110 |
|---|---|
| DOI | 10.37520/amnpsc.2020.032 |
| Keywords | Božena Němcová – ethnographic collection – notebooks – Slovakia – travel journal |
| Type of Article | Matiční listy |
| Citation | DÖRFLOVÁ, Yvetta. A Collector’s Knapsack. The Notebooks of Božena Němcová. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia litterarum. Prague: National Museum, 2020, 65(3-4), 90-110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/amnpsc.2020.032. ISSN 2570-6861 (Print), 2570-687X (Online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/amnphl/65-3-4/a-collectors-knapsack-the-notebooks-of-bozena-nemcova |
Less-known sources on the life and work of Božena Němcová include her notebooks. She probably had a large number of them, but only four have been preserved, of which one has been published in its entirety. The remaining ones have been issued in fragments. Němcová used three notebooks during her travels to Slovakia. She recorded the course of the trip and experiences from her stay in two, in the larger of which, entitled Zápisky z cest do Uher [Notes from Trips to Hungary], she also wrote ethnographic notes, especially fairy tales and children’s games, and excerpts from contemporary literature on Slovakia. The third notebook was probably conceived in advance as a Slovak-Czech manuscript dictionary. The last, so-called Malý zápisník [Small Notebook], provides a mosaic-like picture of the author’s life and her interests in 1855–1859. The article is complemented by a treatise on previously unknown notebooks with copies of poems (K. J. Erben, K. H. Borovský and others), which Němcová dedicated to her son Karel.
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