Hronský's prose work, especially his great novels Jozef Mak, The Scrivener, Gráč and Andreas Búr, the Master mark one of the most important directions in modern Slovak prose. In his shorter prose, since the end of the 1920's he tries to show the social and psychological features of Slovak village life. It is evident that the narrator's voice is dominant above the story with narrative irony and showing the protagonist in a state of psychic torment and suffering.
In the first half of the 1930's, the first Hronský's novels Bread and Jozef Mak appeared. These are written in evocative language full of an interior expressiveness and psychological depth of the heroes.
At the beginning of the 1940's, he published the novel The Scrivener, Gráč and in emigration the next key novel was Andreas Búr, the Master. Jozef Mak, "a man-in-a-million" in the author's conception is a symbol of yielding to fate, to certain bitterness but not toresignation; his fundamental psychic state is suffering. The stylistic specifics of this and other novels by Hronský address the protagonists, their curse and their struggle to get free of a state of passivity and the difficulty of life. While Jozef Mak represents the pathos of the human condition, the Scrivener, Gráč adds an ironical undertone. Over the fable the narrator dominates responding to the writer's assessment of the situation, events and protagonists and the whole novel appears as the narrator's monologue. Critics of the time saw the novel as an experiment and were unable to relate to it.
The conscious of Gráč (Hráč, i. e. Player or Gambler with the game as the base motif of the novel) is chaotic and corresponds with the instability of the time when the work was conceived. It is a masterly portrait of the approaching catastrophe of war. Here already is the theme of the destructive individual, a home lost and being
a stranger in the world and estranged among people. The theme of loneliness and loss of fundamental certainty reaches its apex in the novel Andreas Búr, the Master, which is also a stylistic reflection of a dramatic change in Hronský's human situation (involuntary emigration) and also an attempt to find sustenance in timeless theme of the creation of art. The tragic feeling of life in Hronský's art culminates in the novel
A World in a Quagmire, where he returns to the events of the war in Slovakia. Here, the central themes of modern literature in the 20 th century prevail: the violence of man towards man and the suffering resulting from the inability of people to communicate. Slovak issues in Hronský's work gained a universal expression and his novels seem to be an integral part of the contemporary European heritage.
