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shame. They will be afraid that in a few years they will be taking to a for-
mer SA sturmbannführer, ultra-right politicians, psychiatrists and official
experts, about how persecuted they were by the Nazis. They will not want
to be subjected to delayed searches of victims by their former adversaries.
As time goes by, the sense of it all will be lost (Haderlapová, 2016, 173).
Generally speaking, Angel pozabe is one of the most prominent pros-
es to thematize the countryside that have recently been written by a Slo-
venian author, although it is worth noting that it was written in German
and first published in Austria.
The Czech Situation
Immediately after 1989, Czech authors of the younger and middle gen-
102 erations in the post-communist morass were mainly looking for topics
that were morally redeeming, value-oriented, or attempting to link their
work to the fragments of historical memory of the Czech nation. Theirs
were mainly novels that were searching for one’s conscience, they were of-
ten memorial, and following Jan Lopatka’s critical concept of authentic-
ity they were reflecting political and social topics (Události (1991) by Jan
Hanč (1916–1963), Teorie spolehlivosti (1994) by Ivan Diviš (1924–1999),
Paměti (1992, 1994) by Václav Černý (1905–1987), Celý život (1992, 1993)
by Jan Zábrana (1931–1984), etc.).
Besides these works, there existed a tendency towards a development
of colourful imaginative postmodern prose (e.g., Jiří Kratochvil (1940),
Daniela Hodrová (1946), Michal Ajvaz (1949), Jáchym Topol (1962)), of-
ten using narrative techniques of popular literature (Miloš Urban (1967),
Jan Jandourek (1965), Petr Motýl (1964)). Very soon, however, there was
an effort to emerge from postmodern relativity, absence of values and
hopelessness, by returning to the sources, to personal and family roots in
an attempt to ‘belong somewhere’, to seek out one’s ‘places with memo-
ry’ (Mindeková 2009, 127). The boundary between both tendencies is Pa-
triarchátu dávno zašlá sláva (2003), a novel by Pavel Brycz (1968), which
is on the one hand a family saga, on the other many compositional ele-
ments and especially a play-on-words with meanings (the inclusiveness of
the names of characters and places) can be understoot as postmodern at-
tributes.
Humorous tones are used to describe the encounter of an impracti-
cal urban person with the reality of the countryside in Venkovské povídky
(1996) by musician and prose writer Václav Koubek (1955). The novel is a
mosaic made up of fragments of scenes from a village in which the story-
shame. They will be afraid that in a few years they will be taking to a for-
mer SA sturmbannführer, ultra-right politicians, psychiatrists and official
experts, about how persecuted they were by the Nazis. They will not want
to be subjected to delayed searches of victims by their former adversaries.
As time goes by, the sense of it all will be lost (Haderlapová, 2016, 173).
Generally speaking, Angel pozabe is one of the most prominent pros-
es to thematize the countryside that have recently been written by a Slo-
venian author, although it is worth noting that it was written in German
and first published in Austria.
The Czech Situation
Immediately after 1989, Czech authors of the younger and middle gen-
102 erations in the post-communist morass were mainly looking for topics
that were morally redeeming, value-oriented, or attempting to link their
work to the fragments of historical memory of the Czech nation. Theirs
were mainly novels that were searching for one’s conscience, they were of-
ten memorial, and following Jan Lopatka’s critical concept of authentic-
ity they were reflecting political and social topics (Události (1991) by Jan
Hanč (1916–1963), Teorie spolehlivosti (1994) by Ivan Diviš (1924–1999),
Paměti (1992, 1994) by Václav Černý (1905–1987), Celý život (1992, 1993)
by Jan Zábrana (1931–1984), etc.).
Besides these works, there existed a tendency towards a development
of colourful imaginative postmodern prose (e.g., Jiří Kratochvil (1940),
Daniela Hodrová (1946), Michal Ajvaz (1949), Jáchym Topol (1962)), of-
ten using narrative techniques of popular literature (Miloš Urban (1967),
Jan Jandourek (1965), Petr Motýl (1964)). Very soon, however, there was
an effort to emerge from postmodern relativity, absence of values and
hopelessness, by returning to the sources, to personal and family roots in
an attempt to ‘belong somewhere’, to seek out one’s ‘places with memo-
ry’ (Mindeková 2009, 127). The boundary between both tendencies is Pa-
triarchátu dávno zašlá sláva (2003), a novel by Pavel Brycz (1968), which
is on the one hand a family saga, on the other many compositional ele-
ments and especially a play-on-words with meanings (the inclusiveness of
the names of characters and places) can be understoot as postmodern at-
tributes.
Humorous tones are used to describe the encounter of an impracti-
cal urban person with the reality of the countryside in Venkovské povídky
(1996) by musician and prose writer Václav Koubek (1955). The novel is a
mosaic made up of fragments of scenes from a village in which the story-
