Pavel Vilikovský
Anasoft litera 2006 Winner, 2007, 2010 and 2011 Finalist
(1941) Palúdzka
He worked as an editor in the publishing house Tatran and as the editor-in-chief assistant in Romboid, the literary monthly magazine. He dedicates himself to translation, as well. He debuted with a collection of short stories Citová výchova v marci / Emotional Education in March (1965). Further books include: Prvá veta spánku / The First Sentence of Sleep (1989), Večne je zelený... / It’s Always Green (1989), Kôň na poschodí / Horse Upstairs, Slepec vo Vrábľoch / The Blind man in Vráble (1989), Eskalácia citu / Escalation of Feeling (1989), Krutý strojvodca / The Cruel Engine Driver (1996), Posledný kôň Pompejí / The Last Horse of Pompeii (2001), Čarovný papagáj a iné gýče / The Magical Parrot and Other Kitsches (2005), with which he won the Anasoft litera award and other awards. He is also the laureate of the Dominik Tatarka Award.
Pes na ceste
2010
Vlastný životopis zla / The Own Curriculum of Evil
2009
The new work of Pavel Vilikovský could be designated as a novel searching for the essence of evil. It is a novel about the fear, which we were raised on in socialism, the novel about our twisted picture of freedom. It takes place during the fifties – up to the present. The main character of the first part of the novel is lured out of a small Austrian village to Vienna’s Russian zone by the National Security, he is driven back to Bratislava and imprisoned in a conspiratorial flat. They force him, through blackmailing, to turn in his friends in Bratislava. The second part of the novel is the narration of the pensioned literature teacher who is studying Goebbels’ diaries, pushed by the effort to ascertain the origin of evil. The teacher decides to investigate the fate of Mária M. who has been missing for twenty years.
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Silberputzen /
Silberputzen (2006) |
Čarovný papagáj a iné gýče / The Magical Parrot and Other Kitsches (2005) |
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