“Manifests” and artistic practice of the so-called “Generation’56” in the Slovakian prose

Abstract

In Slovakia, in the 1950s, there was a new generation of writers, who gathered aroung the magazine “Mlada tvorba”. Youngsters expressed their views on the their rights for individuality, artistic experiment, freedom from standards / patterns of the past through the “manifests”. Artistic practice showed similarities and differences of these writers’ idioms.