Četrtek
Četrtek je roman o usodi vzhodnoevropskih družb po padcu berlinskega zidu, pa tudi o ljudeh, ki v novih življenjskih okoliščinah skušajo razumeti svet in najti mesto v njem. Skozi življenja petih junakinj pokaže usedlino, ki se je nabrala na družbenem dnu med neskončno bolgarsko tranzicijo. Medtem ko revni nimajo denarja ne za hrano, ne za […]
Balerina, balerina
Kratki roman Balerina, Balerina, je prvoosebna ženska izpoved deklice, kasneje ženske, ki je ranjena v svoji duši. Njeno dojemanje sveta je omejeno, še več, podoživlja ga zgolj skozi oči in besede odraslih. Predvsem svoje mame Ivanke, brata Karla, prijatelja Ivana, ki je kot otrok prepričan, da bo postal zdravnik in jo ozdravel, od vaškega poštarja […]
Ornament
The Ornament is story of a student, Matej Hóz, takes place in the 1950s in the days of persecution of Christians by the communist régime. Matej billets a priest hiding from the state police in his apartment. They form a strange friendship, which remains the central theme of the story even after the priest disappears, […]
Razum
Sloboda‘s prose writing has strong autobiographical features. The author, nearly always, describes his own experience and workings of his mind in his prose writing: he focuses on the search for the meaning of life and on the attitudes of an individual in an estranged society. Reason brings out a story of an intellectual, engaged in […]
Nenapisan roman
The Unwritten Novel is a prose work about a non-assertive intellectual, set in the 1970s. The protagonist, Adam Zachariáš, is a type of an anti-hero. The communist regime persecutes him, but not to that extent he would make it the main topic of his „notes“ for a novel. Zachariáš realizes that behind every ban on working or […]
Konec igre
The End of the Game is a psychological novel with a suspense plot deals with the problem of crime and punishment, with both the individual and collective morals of the society in the last decade of socialism in the 1980s. A film director murders his wife in affect, but his mother saves him by pleading guilty and accepting […]
Luč
The Lamp is an ambitious project, combining several traditional types of novel: a road novel, an educational novel, a social novel. It brings forth a skeptical polemic with “great stories”: a Christian story of the “history of salvation”, a socialist story of emancipation of the working-class man, a story of “liberation” based on the belief in the technical progress. […]
Marek konjar in ogrski papež
The sparse plot of a historical novel Mark the Horse Groom and the Pope of Hungary is set in 16th century, in the times of the Dózsa uprising. The author writes about the powerful men of this world who yearn for even more power and who do not hesitate to use any beguiling means for reaching […]
Psi se ženijo
The novel Dogs Marry offers an interesting and bold insight into our contemporary reality. A suspenseful story about the private life of a writer coming to a small town to do research for his next prose work deals with the unclear and insincere relationships within the society. It probes the borders of funny and serious, and examines how […]
Pomočnik
The story of The Assistant takes place in a small township of Palánk in southern Slovakia, recovering after the trauma of WWII. The residents of Palánk do not dwell on the past, they fix their attention to the future. Life bursts out in this small town with all its might, tastes, colours and passion. The need to compensate […]