Abstrakt
As Vladimír Barborík noted about historical narratives: "It is not somuch about saying something new (for that you would need to recognize what had already been said) but about forgetting what has already been said and 'discovering' the subject anew."24 It is clear that telling stories set against the backdrop of war means pushing this primary theme into forms of dramatization, like focusing on the problematic nature of the narrative situation, or, on the thematic and idea level, shifting the basic images into different levels of communication, like by juxtaposing them with other key traumas of the 20th century. The temporal remove from the war is reflected today in the specific role of the narrator, who approaches the images of war from the position of proclaimed epic remove.
In the case of fiction, detailed work with facts and documents of the time enrich the fictional story with a historical scope. The treatment of the theme of Shoah and Porajmos is, at its root, quite diverse, on the one hand continuing to support historical stereotypes firmly rooted in the mentality of the Slovak nation, on the other hand, at least in particular cases, offering new connections and new interpretations of historical events.
