Interetnické relácie a stredoeurópske súvislosti v moderných slovenských románoch z histórie
Inter-Ethnic Relations and Central European Context in Modern Slovak Historical Novels

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes two Slovak novels; namely Peter Jaroš’s The Millennial Bee (Tisícročná včela) and Pavol Rankov’s It Happened on 1st September (or some other time) (Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy)). These novels were published in different cultural and political contexts and they both concern three diff erent decades of Slovak history. The former novel deals with a period between 1890–1919; the latter with the war and post-war period since 1938 till 1968. Both the novels are not traditional historical novels but rather innovative historical fiction using postmodern narrative strategies. In these novels; the narrative dealing with historical facts overlaps with tragic stories of fi ctional characters. The most important themes of both the novels is the depiction of destructive social processes and a decay of traditional and naturally created communities as well as depiction of emerging ethnic and later also social conflicts and a covert continuity of multicultural and tolerant society.

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