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- NovelRené, or: A Young Man's Adventures and ExperiencesRené mládenca príhody a skúsenostiJozef Ignác Bajza · 1784The Upper Hungary of the Enlightenment, where a reforming parish priest writes a novel in Slovak and runs up against Church censorship.Literature
- PoetrySláva's DaughterSlávy dceraJán Kollár · 1824A great cycle of sonnets in which the love of a woman merges with the destiny of all the Slavs.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryZakliata panna vo Váhu a divný JankoJanko Kráľ · 1844not translated into EnglishA ballad of Slovak Romanticism, nourished by popular legends about the beings of the river.Literature
- EssayNárečja slovenskuo alebo potreba písaňja v tomto nárečíĽudovít Štúr · 1846not translated into EnglishUpper Hungary in the 1840s, where a handful of young scholars decide to give the Slovaks their own written language.Literature
- PoetryMarínaAndrej Sládkovič · 1846Upper Hungary in the 1840s, where a young poet of the Štúr generation turns a lost love into a song of the country.Literature
- NovelReštavráciaJán Kalinčiak · 1860not translated into EnglishUpper Hungary in the mid-1840s, where a single election is enough to show a nobility at the end of its tether.Literature
- PoetryThe Death of JánošíkSmrť JánošíkovaJán Botto · 1862Upper Hungary in the middle of the nineteenth century, where Slovak romanticism makes a legendary brigand into a figure of freedom.Literature
- PoetryKill Him!Mor ho!Samo Chalupka · 1864The Slovak national revival of the 1860s, which looks among the Slavs of Antiquity for free ancestors.Literature
- TaleTraditional Slovak FolktalesProstonárodné slovenské povestiPavol Dobšinský · 1880The great collection of Slovak folk tales, gathered by a pastor in the nineteenth century.Literature
- NovelSuchá ratolesťSvetozár Hurban Vajanský · 1884not translated into EnglishUpper Hungary in the 1880s, where a nobility cut off from its people resembles a dead branch.Literature
- NovelDom v strániMartin Kukučín · 1904not translated into EnglishDalmatia at the end of the nineteenth century, seen through a Slovak doctor settled on a Croatian island.Literature
- PoetryNox et solitudoIvan Krasko · 1909not translated into EnglishThe first collection of one of the founders of modern Slovak poetry, between private sadness and anguish for his people.Literature
- TheatreStatky-zmätkyJozef Gregor Tajovský · 1909not translated into EnglishA loveless marriage entered into for a promised inheritance, in a Slovak village, from one Christmas to the next.Literature
- NarrativeThe Ťapák ClanŤapákovciBožena Slančíková-Timrava · 1914A peasant family attached to its old habits, facing a daughter-in-law who wants to reform everything.Literature
- PoetryThe Bloody SonnetsKrvavé sonetyPavol Országh Hviezdoslav · 1919A cry against the war, raised by an old poet in the very first weeks of the world conflict.Literature
- DiaryMoje detiElena Maróthy-Šoltésová · 1924not translated into EnglishThe Slovak bourgeoisie of Martin at the end of the nineteenth century, where a mother keeps the chronicle of her two children.Literature
- PoetryDunaj a SeinaEmil Boleslav Lukáč · 1925not translated into EnglishA Slovak student in Paris, torn between the capital and his native country.Literature
- PoetryStráž pri MoraveAndrej Žarnov · 1925not translated into EnglishA medical student who demands for the Slovaks a place apart in the Czechoslovakia of the twenties.Literature
- NovelŽivý bičMilo Urban · 1927not translated into EnglishA Slovak village far from the front, transformed from within by the Great War.Literature
- PoetryNedeľaLaco Novomeský · 1927not translated into EnglishA social poetry of the city, which denounces in a low voice rather than through slogans.Literature
- NovelJozef MakJozef Cíger-Hronský · 1933The life of a simple man from the Slovak countryside, who endures everything without breaking.Literature
- PoetryBásnik a ženaJán Smrek · 1934not translated into EnglishA love dialogue between a poet and a woman, by one of the representatives of Slovak vitalism.Literature
- NovelThe DemocratsDemokratiJanko Jesenský · 1934An idealistic lawyer amid the intrigues of the young Czechoslovak democracy.Literature
- PoetryUťaté rukyRudolf Fabry · 1935not translated into EnglishA young poet who breaks all at once with tradition and introduces surrealism into Slovak poetry.Literature
- PoetryMladý svadobníkRudolf Dilong · 1936not translated into EnglishA Franciscan monk who states his faith in an avant-garde language, between fervour and sensuality.Literature
- NovelThree Chestnut HorsesTri gaštanové koneMargita Figuli · 1940A love tested by violence and greed, in the Slovak mountains of the thirties.Literature
- PoetryŽofiaValentín Beniak · 1941not translated into EnglishA great visionary poem written at the beginning of the Second World War, between dream and disaster.Literature
- PoetryNeskutočné mestoVladimír Reisel · 1943not translated into EnglishA Prague love affair relived in nostalgia and dread, written during the Second World War.Literature
- NarrativeDrak sa vraciaDobroslav Chrobák · 1943not translated into EnglishA potter banished by superstition returns to the village and faces the fire with his rival in love.Literature
- CinemaWolves' LairsVlčie dieryPaľo Bielik · 1948A mother and her four sons caught up in the Slovak uprising of 1944.Cinema
- NovelDémon súhlasuDominik Tatarka · 1956not translated into EnglishA grotesque satire of the cult of personality and servile approval under Stalinism.Literature
- Short storiesThe Hours and the MinutesHodiny a minútyAlfonz Bednár · 1956Stories of the Slovak uprising without heroes, which also pass judgement on the socialist present.Literature
- NovelDlhý čas čakaniaVladimír Mináč · 1958not translated into EnglishA generation of young Slovaks confronts the wartime state, before the uprising.Literature
- NovelNámestie svätej AlžbetyRudolf Jašík · 1958not translated into EnglishThe love of a poor boy and a Jewish adolescent girl, in the time of the Slovak deportations.Literature
- TheatrePolnočná omšaPeter Karvaš · 1959not translated into EnglishAn ordinary family faces the war on a Christmas evening, between caution and cowardice.Literature
- NovelDeath Is Called EngelchenSmrť sa volá EngelchenLadislav Mňačko · 1959A wounded partisan relives the war and the destruction of a village that had sheltered him.Literature
- CinemaThe Sun in a NetSlnko v sietiŠtefan Uher · 1962A teenage love affair in Bratislava, between eclipse and harvest, which opens a new cinema.Cinema
- CinemaThe Boxer and DeathBoxer a smrťPeter Solan · 1962A prisoner forced to climb into the ring against the commandant of his camp.Cinema
- CinemaThe Shop on Main StreetObchod na korzeJán Kadár · 1965A small man caught between his conscience and the persecution of the Jews in wartime Slovakia.Cinema
- PoetryOstaň tu ešte chvíľkuCtibor Štítnický · 1966not translated into EnglishAn anthology of love poems that became a cult book for several generations of Slovak readers.Literature
- CinemaDragon's ReturnDrak sa vraciaEduard Grečner · 1967A mountain ballad about a village's hatred of a man cast out.Cinema
- CinemaThe Sweet Time of KalimagdoraSladký čas KalimagdoryLeopold Lahola · 1968The fable of a man for whom each year is a lifetime, from childhood to old age.Cinema
- CinemaBirds, Orphans and FoolsVtáčkovia, siroty a blázniJuraj Jakubisko · 1969Three young people who choose madness and play in order to survive in a world in ruins.Cinema
- CinemaPictures of the Old WorldObrazy starého svetaDušan Hanák · 1972Elderly peasants, on the margins of socialist society, tell the story of their lives in front of the camera.Cinema
- CinemaWild LiliesĽalie poľnéElo Havetta · 1972Soldiers back from the Great War, torn between the road and the desire to settle down.Cinema
- DiaryLukavické zápiskyHana Ponická · 1989not translated into EnglishThe daily notes of a woman author put beyond the pale by the regime after she defended the banned authors.Literature
- CinemaA Path Across the DanubeChodník cez DunajMiloslav Luther · 1989A Slovak and a Czech on the run, caught up in the partition of Czechoslovakia at war.Cinema
- NarrativeEver Green Is...Večne je zelený...Pavel Vilikovský · 1989The touched-up memoirs of a talkative old spy, from Austria-Hungary to communism.Literature
- NovelRivers of BabylonPeter Pišťanek · 1991A boiler stoker seizes power in a Bratislava hotel in the aftermath of the fall of communism.Literature
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