Abstract
The conference contribution deals with the literary historical activities of Emil Charous, who belong to well-known Czech professional in Slovak language and literature. Emil Charous, in his extensive corpus of texts (from anthologies to secondary school manuals), formulated his own insight into Slovak literature and the relationship between Czech and Slovak literature, which he describes as a centripetal and centrifugal model of literature.
For Emil Charous's research in Slovak literature, it is a fundamental focus of our mutual literary relations on the image of Prague. His view of Slovak literature is specified through the Czech-Slovak literary context.
The paper analyzes its specific concept of Slovak literature on the material of Czech literary historical handbooks.