Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; R.B.Pynsent - Narration and Analysis in Contemporary Slovak Fiction; J.Kot - The Audacity of Tatarka; P.Petro - The Literary Tradition in the Satirical Prose of Alfonz Bedn r; H.Sivachenko - Transformations of Prose Structure in the '56 Generation; L.Richter - J n Johanides: The Consistency of Blood; R.B.Pynsent - The Contemporary Slovak Historical Novel and Its Search for the Present; B.Truhl r - The Use and Abuse of History in Recent Slovak and Georgian Fiction; D.Rayfield - Innovation in Vincent Sikula's Prose; M.J hnichen - Morality Novels (Alfonz Bedn r, Rudolf Sloboda, Ivan Hudec); J.Stevcek - Mythological Aspects in Peter Jaros's Tis crocn vcela and Chabua Amiradjibi's Data Tutashkhia; G.Lezhava - Social Cognition in the Novels of Ballek, Habaj, Jaros and Sikula; D.Slobodn k - The Sensual and the Rational in Ballek's Fiction; V.Petr k - Ballek's Lesn divadlo as a Political Statement; R.Chmel - The Humanist Concern of Jozef Pusk s; Y.Bogdanov - Magic Realism in the Prose of Jozef Pusk s; J.D.Naughton - The Vision of Reality in Habaj's Kolonisti; K.Brus k - National Antiheroes: Symbolism and Narrative Voice as Coded National Identity in Olga Feldekova's Veverica; N.Rudinsky - In and Out of Reality: Dusan Dusek; S.I.Kanikova - Language, Paralanguage and Metalanguage in Karol Hor k's S pis dravcov; D.Short - The New Composite Poem in Contemporary Slovak Verse and Its Relationship to the Development of Slovak Prose; M.Kov cik - The Projective Interpretation of a Text, Papp's K ra pln bolesti; S.Mag l - Index