Many motifs of Pankovčín`s stories, movement, for example, but also others, have an archaic origin close to the motifs of flying carpets. However, imaginative Pankovčín modernizes and conceives them as an expression of the eternal human desire to overcome the banality of life. Fairy tale magic is a lasting attribute of this world. Supernatural powers work quite naturally in it, with a happy and laughing obviousness.
Milan Hamada
Marrakech is a strange world at first glance. The key to it is the second part of the book with the title Marrakeching. It is one of those worlds "where they talk about miracles as if they are something natural", where people travel in space, boys give birth and a cut-up cockerel is full of eggs. Pankovčín skillfully presents a catalogue of local mythology, para-psychic phenomena and curiosities together with their representatives, anecdotal characters, each of which performs his own major scene and is included as an extra. Every miracle is offered in the same genre, in the form of short anecdotes, impeccably breaking down the possibilities of the world of the imagination into small jokes. This is what Marrakesh looks like; information about where this imaginary village is needs to be supplemented a little: it is not only situated in Eastern Slovakia but also in the realms of literature.
Vladimír Barborík
