Abstract
The story of the depiction of the Slovak village in Czech travelogues over the course of one century also tells of the competition between idyllic and exotic procedures in the Czech cultural myth of Slovakia. The authors' strategies for depicting the exotic character of nineteenth century Slovakia fluctuate between accentuating civilizational otherness and employing partial, often less obvious, procedures known from Oriental travelogues.
The travelogues of the first half of the twentieth century open the way to a subjective point of view which competes with the initial ideological frameworks and highlights a paradigm shift in the perception of the Slovak landscape, Slovaks and their language. The rich inner world of the author's imagination is becoming a new source of exoticism.
Czech travelogues no longer followed the older types of discovery of Slovakia after 1945. This was due to the different socio-political as well as cultural circumstances of Slovakia's entry into the common concept of a new state.
A century of journeys of Czech authors to Slovakia also terminated with the end of the First Republic, and the mutual discovery of our cultures moved to other genre areas.