The type and range of the work of Štefan Žáry is quite wide. Žáry is mainly a poet but at the same time he is the author of impressive novellas and novels, of verse drama, books for children, biographical essays and articles of recollection. He was also a translator, focusing mainly on modern French poetry. As a poet he underwent a number of developmental stages. He entered Slovak literature while still a secondary-school student in 1938 with a collection that was traditional in tone. After he began his university studies in Bratislava, he joined a group of avant-garde poets inspired - mainly via Nezval's poetry - by French surrealism.
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