Tatarka, Dominik (1913–1989) Works   hu sk

Biography

The Communist writer Dominik Tatarka (1913-1989) established anti-Stalinist credentials with Démon súhlasu (The Demon of Conformity, 1956; 1963), a work preceded by Socialist-Realist style novels. After the Soviet invasion of 1968, Tatarka refused to conform, became the leading Slovak dissident figure, and pursued his writing in autobiographical, polythematically diarist, sensualist, "shockingly" eroticist, meanderingly rhapsodic and playful texts.