Medziľudské vzťahy v cykle poviedok Petra Andrušku Balady pre otca a strom
Interpersonal relationships in the cycle of short stories by Peter Andruška Ballads for the Father and the Tree

Summary/Abstract: The article characterizes the existence of literature as a basic kind of art that is closelyconnected with people’s lives. Its professional creator is a writer who often draws attention to unusual interpersonal relationships in his texts. Slovak novelist Peter Andruška (1943) in his cycle of short stories Ballads for Father and Tree (1984) describes the healthy and questionable aspects of everyday life in the background of individual human destinies (especially from the family aspect); writes about the traits of the characters and describes their various actions. On the basis of these attributes, the world of the Imroch family (especially the father and three sons with their wives), who live their lives with adequate joys and problems, opens up to discursive readers. The text also uses excerpts from prototexts and metatexts of important literary theorists, which outline individual theoretical and inspirational starting points for the objective-subjective interpretation of this concrete prose.

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