(Extract) Let’s call him Karsten: it’s one of those stupid, unreal sounding names. The two bully-boys or hand rubbers, who circled around Karsten, rubbing…
(Extract) S ome people are not made for either life or for death. They haven’t enough strength in them for the one or for the other. They spend too much…
HUMOUR AND IRONY IN CULTURAL CONFRONTATION In November 2007 the Slovak Literary Translators Society organized a two days work-shop Humour and Irony in Cultural…
(Extract) She was going down a long passageway, maybe in a space ship, her black coat shining in the light reflected from the bluish walls of the corridor;…
Sixteen years have lapsed since the death of Miroslav Válek. This poet was among the first who had crossed the Rubicon of schematic writing, and started writing…