SÚČASNÁ SLOVENSKÁ PRÓZA V NEMECKÝCH PREKLADOCH: PREHĽAD RECEPČNÝCH SNÁH.

This study examines the reception of the Slovak contemporary fiction prose after 1989 in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It scrutinizes the German translations, insofar as they have been published in book form, and describes the literary critic reactions in the media, especially in the press and radio. The main subjects of the received novels and collections of short stories are the totalitarian past of Slovakia, the processes of transformation and democratization aft er the Slovak nation gained freedom, as well as the current social situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]