Dušek transforms the complexity of his experience into a prosaic form, using a few characteristic compositional and stylistic devices. Most frequently, he makes the meaning of a narrated story or relationships and conflicts "dark" and "mysterious". The reader finds himself in position of an accidental observer or witness to an event or conversation. The indeterminate significance and meaning of the prose is in sharp contrast with the clear and depiction of objects and their details, their natural surroundings, the action, and the appearance of the characters.
Karol Tomiš
Dušek`s carefully captured microworld reflects his admiration of seemingly ordinary things that receive a new significance due to unusual vision or surprising illumination. His courage to create in a period of cool pragmatic utilitarian relationships helped the writer avoid the conventional and even fashion nostalgia the characters feel for the demise of their forefathers world.
Ivan Sulik
Dušek delivers to society mature prose art based on a deep knowledge of village man and the social context wherein this man lives. Dušek does not rely only on the experience and knowledge that is otherwise the basis of real art, but rather he amplifies the experience with the help of contemporary means of expression. He writes from the point of view of today and thus expands the spectrum of contemporary prose.
Rudolf Chmel
Dušek`s contribution to Slovak fiction of the last thirty years consists above all in his original and imaginatively rich rewriting of mundane, everyday themes. Originating in the readers`s mind, they are on the dividing line between dream and reality, finding and losing, life and death. These are themes that always implicitly accompany an aesthetic survey of the movable boundaries between a story and its hidden, unarticulated or semi-articulated meaning. Dušek`s short stories and scriptwriting are tied not only to the thematic but also to the ideological "minimal art," the interest in peripherally uncensored children`s, young people`s, as well as senior`s and very old people`s consciousness. (...) The leitmotif of his numerous books for adults and children is the author`s apostrophe of human sympathy and empathy and positive partnering.
Zora Prušková
