Človek v meste (Debut Dušana Krausa Životy unikajúce)
Man in the Town (Dušan Kraus´s Debut Book Lives Fleeing)

Summary/Abstract: The paper is based on the current conception of reception of the debut novel written byDušan Kraus (1937 – 2001) Životy unikajúce/Lives Fleeing (1979). There are a genologicaland typological perspective and a literary historical perspective adopted in it, the paperoffers an outline reconstruction of the literary career of a lesser-known writer. Thesubject of the analysis is the basic semantic layers of the work (language, narration,composition) and its genological and typological foundations. Within the context ofprose written at that time, the novel is a specific piece of writing placed outside theestablished development lines. It is incompatible with what was introduced by the„novel situation“ at the turn of the 1980s, it is a work of production prose, while it isnot influenced by ideological requirements, it is a contemporary piece of prose whichwas published at the time when Slovak literature was being dominated by past-boundworks. Životy unikajúce/Lives Fleeing as a production or, alternatively, „work“ novel is anunusual variant of the subgenre in Slovak literature. In terms of evolution, it is situatedsomewhere halfway from the ideologically biased depiction of the work environmentin the 1950s towards subversive recoding of the subject matter in the second half of the1980s (in the works of the writers such as Peter Pišťanek and Dušan Taragel).

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