Abstract
This study is dedicated to literary representations of Prague in the novels of Slovak authors of the interwar period. The city of Prague has attracted the attention of Slovak authors since the National Revival.
The image of the city is not consistent in literary texts but, rather, diverse takes on varying images and meanings. Even though the Prague of the National Revival and the First Republic is spoken of in literary theory as an important and inspiring place for Slovak literature, its literary representations after the beginning of the First Republic tend to depict a Prague full of pessimistic visions with destructive elements.
Unlike older, 19th century, literary representations of Prague, First Republic novels are written as unidealized stories, rid of the poetics of Revival glorification. The body of work followed in this study includes novels by Martin Kukučín (Lukáš Blahosej Krasoň), Milo Urban (Hmly na úsvite) and Gejza Vámoš (Atómy Boha).
Each if these authors works with a qualitatively different type of relationship between Czechs and Slovaks after the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918.