Abstract
Drawing on the considerations of Karheinz Stierle, who claims that one of the key tasks in thinking about literature is to oppose the technical totality of modernity and its repressive mechanism with the substanciality of the slow and the already past, the study aims - in the reading of Franz Kafka, for example, by German thinker, literary theorist and critic W. Benjamin, and that of Karel Čapek by Czech literary historian and critic J.
Opelík - to present a form of thinking of literature and its studies that would belong in some ways to the "slow reading culture". The question of the current state of thought about literature is reflected here by the prism of slowness and the culture of slow reading, together with a study of literature that opens our way to something we might have otherwise abandoned in the "rhythm of constantly renewed acceleration".