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. Rozum – Reason brings out a story of an intellectual, engaged in filmmaking, who in vain tries to seek the way out of the maze of problems of contemporary society and of ruffled family relations. The motif of suicide echoes through the novel as a solution for a situation without a proper way out. This Sloboda‘s most appealing novel, taking place partly in his native village, where he lived all his life, and in the film studios where he worked as a scriptwriter, is the evidence of the difficult situation of an intellectual in the 1970s