In the second edition of Lit_Cast Slovakia Rajendra Chitnis tells Julia Sherwood about teaching Czech and Slovak at British universities, why Vladimír Mečiar was beneficial for Slovak literature and why Franz Kafka is a big problem for literatures of smaller European countries. They will also discuss whether readers need to know history in order to understand older Slovak literature and whether Milan Kundera would still be aknowledged world-wide had the books of Juraj Johanides been translated into English.