Podoby modernej prózy - diskusia v Mladej tvorbe na konci 50. rokov 20. storočia
Forms of the modern prose - discussion in Mladá tvorba in late 1950ʼs

Summary/Abstract: In 1957, a discussion of literary reviewers about the nature of the contemporary modern novel started on the pages of a newly established Slovak journal of literature and art Mladá tvorba (1956 – 1970). The discussion concerning the nature of the contemporary modern novel was launched by Jozef Bob in the journal Kultúrny život. In 1957, Bob termed the German author Hans Fallada’s novel Wolf unter Wölfen “contemporary“, although the book was published as early as 1937. Shortly after that, the debate moved to the journal Mladá tvorba. Among the authors who took part in the polemic, were the Anglicist Ján Vilikovský, the literary reviewer and film critic Ján Rozner, and the cultural worker and writer Vladimír Mináč. The conclusion of the debate shows that the percepcion of the prose in Slovak culture in late 1950ʼs was still burdened by the ideological nature of socialist realism. Mladá tvorba, however, gradually became a platform of reception and thinking about the modern world literature, and thus, especially in 1960ʼs, it significantly contributed to the democratization of Slovak culture.

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