Príbehy z Karpát

Fourteen short prose pieces, from humoresque to humorous sketch, about ordinary people from the countryside in various periods up to the present, most of them rooted in the villages of eastern Slovakia around the author's literary town of Makov. They show everyday human behaviour, ordinary envy and compassion, seeming boorishness, a little absurdity and unintended humour. The village heroes are not confronted with the outside world but remain themselves, and their dramas grow out of their own characters: a man burdened by his natural decency would rather blend with the immorality around him, and in 'Conviction' two brothers part ways because they cannot agree on how a word should be pronounced.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

111 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2005 by Slovenský spisovateľ

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

802201351X (original)