The term essay for particular literary or journalistic texts in Slovak literature started to be used only since the 1880´s. The literary historian Rudolf Chmel …
He was born in Budapest, the capital city of what was then Greater Hungary. His father, a tailor, and his mother, a midwife, had gone there to work from the western…
(In the late 1920s, and especially after the suicide of Vladimír Majakovskij in April 1930, Novomeský concluded that, in a world whose prime need and interest was…
The founding of the Republic of Czechoslovakia in 1918 created good conditions for the growth of Slovak literature. Suppressed cultural institutions such as Matica…
