Vyhľadávanie
The stories of Dušan Mitana, a master of short forms, are typified by their combination of a hard, bony reality and elements of the fantastical and the absurd – rather like the era in which they were written.
The second short story collection by this now legendary author, is similar to his début, PSIE DNI, in blending an everyday reality of apparently quite ordinary characters with various dreamlike and mysterious elements. Although the collection came out in 1976, it harks back to the 1960s with its evocations of freedom in a totalitarian regime as well as of its harsh suppression after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by occupying forces in 1968. The collection includes the story IHLA (The Needle), considered one of the best Slovak literary texts of the 20th century.
