In the mountains of Slovakia, Peter has been in love with Magdalena since childhood and asks her to marry him. However, her mother promises her to a cruel, rich farmer, Jano Zapotočný. Magdalena promises Peter that she will put off marrying Jano if Peter can prove himself capable of making a living, but tragedy intervenes in their lives.[7]
Receptionedit
In Slovakia, Three Chestnut Horses was an immediate success, running through eight editions in seven years. is considered a beloved classic.[8] In Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia, Norma L. Rudinsky noted that "[Magdalena and Peter's] spiritual growth through tragedy to a happy ending is mythologized by three horses symbolizing the goodness, beauty and strength of nature as well as the same three qualities gained by obedience to the Christian moral code."[9]
During the period of communist Czechoslovakia, the book was published with several religious passages excised.[10]
Prof. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson awarded it five stars, saying "Three Chestnut Horses as an authentically religious book is a good antidote […] It won’t heal the wounds of living, but it will give you enough balm to carry on to the next encounter."[11]
Referencesedit
^"Figuli Margita, Tri gaštanové kone". Schody do neba.
^Figuli, Margita; Minahane, John (2014). Three Chestnut Horses. Central European University Press. ISBN9789633860540. JSTOR 10.7829/j.ctvsf1q79.
^"Three Chestnut Horses | Central European University". www.ceu.edu.
^"Meridians 12-23". Slovak Writers' Union. September 15, 1980 – via Google Books.
^Zirin, Mary; Livezeanu, Irina; Worobec, Christine D.; Farris, June Pachuta (March 26, 2015). Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography Volume I: Southeastern and East Central Europe (Edited by Irina Livezeanu with June Pachuta Farris) Volume II: Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian. Routledge. ISBN9781317451976 – via Google Books.
^Petro, Peter (May 13, 1997). History of Slovak Literature. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN9780773565982 – via Google Books.
^Figuli, Margita (September 15, 2014). Three Chestnut Horses. Central European University Press – via www.ceeol.com.
^Wilson, Katharina M.; Wilson, M. (September 15, 1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. ISBN9780824085476 – via Google Books.
^Wilson, Katharina M.; Schlueter, Paul; Schlueter, June (December 16, 2013). Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN9781135616700 – via Google Books.
^Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (July 18, 2007). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN9789027292353 – via Google Books.
^"Slovak Novels in English #7: Three Chestnut Horses". Sarah Hinlicky Wilson. 2 August 2018.
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