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The Idiolect of the Progress

Summary/Abstract: The text examines the relation between socialistic realism and the previous literary periods, as well as the overlapping and continuation of the literary tradition in the period after 1989. The analysis approaches the texts of Pavel Vilikovský (“The First Sentence of the Sleep”, “Methodological Story” and “Ballad for Jánošík”) and Ján Johanides (“The indecisive” and “Marek the Horse Groom and the Pope of Hungary”) through the basic principles of socialist literature: the goal and the forward movement. The main purpose is to outline those features in Pavel Vilikovskýʼs work that would allow us to talk about an idiolect specifi c to him. This can beachieved, on the one hand, by analyzing the elements in his prose which do not correspond to and even overturn the notion of the literary canon and, on the other hand, through juxtaposition of P. Vilikovský and J. Johanides who was one of the fi rst authors of the oppositional way of writing.

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