Introduction

Robert B. Pynsent

1-39

Narration and analysis in contemporary Slovak fiction

Jozef Kot

40-49

The audacity of Tatarka

Peter Petro

50-58

Literary tradition in the satirical prose of Alfonz Bednár

Halina Sivachenko

59-69

Transformations of prose structure in the "56 generation"

Ludwig Richter

70-78

Ján Johanides

the consistency of blood

Robert B. Pynsent

79-107

The contemporary Slovak historical novel and its search for the present

Břetislav Truhlář

108-113

The use and abuse of history in recent Slovak and Georgian fiction

Donald Rayfield

114-124

Innovation in Vincent Šikula's prose

Manfred Jähnichen

125-133

Morality novels

Alfonz Bednár, Rudolf Sloboda, Ivan Hudec

Jan Števček

134-142

Mythological aspects in Peter Jaroš's Tisícročná včela and Chabua Amiradjibi's Data tutashkia

Giuli Lezhava

143-151

Social cognition in the novels of Ballek, haj, Jaroš and Šikula

Dušan Slobodník

152-157

The sensual and the rational in Ballek's fiction

Vladimir Petrik

158-165

Ballek's Lesné divadlo as a political statement

Rudolf Chmel

166-171

The humanist concern of Jozef Puškáš

Yuri Bogdanov

172-180

Magic realism in the prose of Jozef Puškáš

James D. Naughton

181-192

The vision of reality in Habaj's Kolonisti

Karel Brušák

193-204

National antiheroes

symbolism and narrative voice as coded national identity in Ol'ga Feldeková's Veverica

Norma L. Rudinsky

205-214

In and out of reality

Dušan Dušek

Sonia I. Kanikova

215-230

Language, paralanguage and metalanguage in Karol Horák's Súpisdravcov

David Short

231-249

The new composite poem in contemporary Slovak verse and its relationship to the development of Slovak prose

Marian Kováčik

250-256

The translation of a literary work into a projective form

Papp's Kára plná bolesti

Slavomír Magál

257-262