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Modern Slovak Prose

Fiction since 1954

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Robert B. Pynsent

    1. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Russia and East Europe (SREE)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  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
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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.

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

    Robert B. Pynsent

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