SROVNÁNÍ ČESKÉHO A SLOVENSKÉHO POLISTOPADOVÉHO LITERÁRNÍHO VÝVOJE
COMPARISON OF CZECH AND SLOVAK POST-NOVEMBER 1989 LITERARY DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: Comparative balance “stocktaking” of the post-November 1989 development in the Slovak and Czech literature registers quantitative and qualitative differences associated with re-integration of works from samizdat and exile into the national literary corpuses and notices also different forms which in the Czech and Slovak environment acquired phenomena like spiritual poetry, surrealism or postmodernism. It also points out that while in the Slovak society the motivations of the exile and its literature functioned after November 1989 rather in the political and religious life, in the Czech environment they surfaced first of all in a new value classification of the national literature. The article then comes to conclusion that two democratic decades distinctly confirmed peculiarity of the two national literatures although in this period there existed some common trends on both sides. The major common denominator was the fact that both the literatures were significantly enriched by the past twenty years both in quantity and quality.

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