From Memory to Literature in Seven Days to the Funeral by Ján Rozner Cover Image

От памет към литература в Седем дни до погребението на Ян Рознер
From Memory to Literature in Seven Days to the Funeral by Ján Rozner

Author(s): Irena Dimova-Gencheva
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Novel, Slovak Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: autofiction; individual memory; collective memory; Slovak literature; Ján Rozner; autobiographical prose

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the place of autofiction in contemporary Slovak literature after 2000 through the novel Seven Days to the Funeral by Ján Rozner. The analysis explores the interweaving of individual and collective memory, the genre’s liminal position between memoir, autobiographical novel, and autofiction, as well as the narrative’s self-reflexive strategies. The novel is interpreted as a literary testimony to the Socialist period and as a text in which memory becomes a central mechanism for the artistic processing of trauma, death, and history.

  • Issue Year: 12/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 72-82
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian
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