The audacity of Tatarka

Peter Petro

pp. 50-58

in: Robert B. Pynsent (ed), Modern Slovak prose, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Abstract

Many of today's Slovak writers have managed to liberate themselves from the temptation of worldliness, of being trendy at all costs, and even from the totalitarian imperative which might handicap the writer as much as the imperative of nationalism which ruled Slovak literature in the first half of the twentieth century with a few, significant, exceptions: the imperative which commended Slovaks to catch up with the rest of Europe.