Medzi Slovákmi / Among the Slovaks

Can you love a country that has rejected you because you wanted to live your life as a free man?
This collection of essays by one of the most distinctive Slovak newspaper commentators, Martin M. Šimečka, offers incisive insights into the social and political life of independent Slovakia and its modern identity. The role of the “enemy of the state,” forced upon him by the powers-that-be both under communism and in the early days of Slovakia’s independence, provides him with a unique perspective on the country as a whole and on its key issues, such as coming to terms with the legacy of totalitarianism, and also on more recent challenges such as the migration crisis and the role of Slovakia in the Euro-Atlantic community. Martin M. Šimečka is a rebel as well as a comforter, provocateur and thinker, questioner and narrator but, first and foremost, he is a genuine intellectual of the kind that is rare in Central Europe.

Publisher

Number of pages

155

Language

Slovak language

Year

2017

Book category

Essay

Original language

Slovak language

Issue

1.

Edition

Knižná edícia Denníka N

Published in

Bratislava

ISBN

978-80-972394-3-5

Book cover

Hardcover