JAROŠOVO „DEFENZÍVNE ČÍTANIE“ MAGICKÉHO REALIZMU

The study considers the potential presence of the poetics of Latin American magic realism within the system of Slovak literature, particularly in the fiction of Peter Jaroš. In the first part the entropic nature of the concept magical realism is highlighted together with several remarks about the presence of European sources in its structure (J. M. Meletinskij, A. Housková). The second part is an account of defensive forms based on critical reflections on the fiction of P. Jaroš provided by V. Oleríny, S. Pokrivčáková, I. Sulík, V. Šabík and P. Zajac, of reading (H. Bloom) concerning the poet initiation of magical realism into Slovak literature in the late 1970s