<em>The Glass Hill</em> represented the beginning of the Thaw in Slovak literature and the beginning of the reaction to the simplified, schematic, blustering-demagogic descriptions of Communists' heroism.
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Robert B. Pynsent</div>
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We rarely find in Slovak and Czech literature such confident manipulation of fictive material, such a lyric-epic breath. It is the author's ability to combine such disparate creative procedures that form the framework of his vision and philosophical complexity.</p>
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Alfred Thomas</div>
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Already in <i>The Glass Hill</i> the thinking of a non-simple, non-transparent human individual is introduced. From the start for Bednár "a human being is a mixture" and "a strange being". This characteristic not only applies to the exceptional central characters but also to peripheral characters in Bednár's work and also for the writer's conception of mankind generally. The subject and composition of Bednár's short stories indicates remarkable innovation in our prose. Through this element each of his works astonishes us: <i>The Glass Hill</i> through the device of a diary, <i>Hours and Minutes</i> through the structure of different levels of epic, <i>The Tooth of Thunder</i> through its gigantic scale.<br />
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Albín Bagin<br />
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