Slovenska Literatura (Feb 2001)
The creation of I. Kadlečík against the background of the nineties
Abstract
The study deals with the latest works of Ivan Kadlečík from the 90 - ties. The author of the study at the same time compares the Kadlečik’s works written in this decade with his previous writings and put them into connections with the themes, resonating in the literary discourse of the period (pathos versus irony, authenticity versus conventional, autobiographical writing like a rhetoric figure). The author pays attention especially to transformations in autobiographical writing and to changes in genres - changing of non-fiction with prosaic genres. In this aspect he dominantly gives attention to a post-modern prose Taroky (The Tarot). He compares it with traditional forms of autobiographical writing that are relevant in the works of Kadlečík. The changing in genres are considered to be an effort to defend a motive of autobiographicity against the attacks of literary discourse that makes the true value of self - confirmational gesture problematic and relative. In the self - confirmational gesture he finds extra literary connections that have psychological context.
