Modern Slovak Prose

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Robert B. Pynsent

   Pages 1-39

3. Narration and Analysis in Contemporary Slovak Fiction

   • Jozef Kot

   Pages 40-49

4. The Audacity of Tatarka

   • Peter Petro

   Pages 50-58

5. Literary Tradition in the Satirical Prose of Alfonz Bednár

   • Halina Sivachenko

   Pages 59-69

6. Transformations of Prose Structure in the ’56 Generation

   • Ludwig Richter

   Pages 70-78

7. Ján Johanides: The Consistency of Blood

   • Robert B. Pynsent

   Pages 79-107

8. The Contemporary Slovak Historical Novel and Its Search for the Present

   • Břetislav Truhlář

   Pages 108-113

9. The Use and Abuse of History in Recent Slovak and Georgian Fiction

   • Donald Rayfield

   Pages 114-124

10. Innovation in Vincent Šikula’s Prose

    • Manfred Jähnichen

    Pages 125-133

11. Morality Novels: Alfonz Bednár, Rudolf Sloboda, Ivan Hudec

    • Ján Števček

    Pages 134-142

12. Mythological Aspects in Peter Jaroš’s Tisícročná včela and Chabua Amiradjibi’s Data Tutashkia

    • Giuli Lezhava

    Pages 143-151

13. Social Cognition in the Novels of Ballek, Habaj, Jaroš and Šikula

    • Dušan Slobodník

    Pages 152-157

14. The Sensual and the Rational in Ballek’s Fiction

    • Vladimír Petrík

    Pages 158-165

15. Ballek’s Lesné divadlo as a Political Statement

    • Rudolf Chmel

    Pages 166-171

16. The Humanist Concern of Jozef Puškáš

    • Yuri Bogdanov

    Pages 172-180

17. Magic Realism in the Prose of Jozef Puškáš

    • James D. Naughton

    Pages 181-192

18. The Vision of Reality in Habaj’s Kolonisti

    • Karel Brušák

    Pages 193-204

19. National Antiheroes: Symbolism and Narrative Voice as Coded National Identity in Ol’ga Feldeková’s Veverica

    • Norma L. Rudinsky

    Pages 205-214

20. In and Out of Reality: Dušan Dušek

    • Sonia I. Kanikova

    Pages 215-230

Modern Slovak Prose is a collection of essays based on papers delivered at a symposium at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Although few major Slovak writers published during the 1970s 'normalisation' period after the Warsaw Pact intervention, Slovak literature did not stagnate like Czech literature. The essays in this volume cover the whole period from the death throes of socialist realism to the lively, sophisticated, cosmopolitan fiction of the late 1970s and 1980s. The cut-off date is 1988. All the prose writers considered important by the Slovaks themselves and by non-slovak scholars are covered: Tatarka, Jaros, Johan Ides, Ballek, Bednr, Dusek and so forth. The volume contains a survey introduction to Slovak fiction from the 1950s to the present. This book is the first to assess an area of east central European culture which has been virtually ignored in the West.

• fiction
• novel
• realism

• School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

  Robert B. Pynsent

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