On the face of it Sklený vrch is a construction novel with a female first-person narrator, Erna. 1954 was chosen because it saw the publication of Alfonz Bednár’s Sklený vrch,* which marked the beginning of the Thaw in Slovak literature, the beginning of a reaction against oversimplified, schematic, tub-thumping depictions of Communists heroic in war and peace such as written by the recently deceased ‘dissident’, Dominik Tatarka. This volume is the product of a conference on Slovak fiction since 1954 held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in September 1987.
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