On various forms of autobiographical writing in Slovak prose after 2000 Cover Image

K rôznym podobám autobiografického písania v slovenskej próze po roku 2000
On various forms of autobiographical writing in Slovak prose after 2000

Author(s): Marta Součková
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Slovak Literature
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Jana Bodnárová; Katarína Kucbelová; Michaela Rosová; Autobiographical writing; Autofiction; Slovak women’s writing after 2000;

Summary/Abstract: This study specifies three forms of autobiographical writing: the prose of Jana Bodnárová’s takmer neviditeľná (almost invisible, 2008), whose title (beginning with a lowercase letter) suggests the dissolution of the subject in fragments from her past and present life; the hybrid “novel” of Katarína Kucbelová Čepiec (2019; forthcoming in Eng. trans. The Bonnet,2024), in which the autobiographical line is one of its many layers; and Michaela Rosová’s novella Tvoja izba (Your room, 2019), both revealing and concealing hidden layers of the self. Through the texts in question and secondary literature, the article documents not only the re-vitalization of autobiographical approaches in Slovak women’s writing after 2000, but also the reinforcement of its fictionalization.

  • Issue Year: 15/2023
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 121-135
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovak