Pogranicza map, pogranicza nauk. Peregrynacje słowackie

The main aim of the article is to show the type of the cultural awareness typical for the borderland areas, emerging in the Slovak culture. It proposes a thesis that the borderland awareness is manifested in the model of the historical and literary description, which was created after the spatial twist in the liberal arts and under the inspiration of a weather map and a geological section. The article shows how a few generations of the Slovak literary scholars (O. Čepan, M. Hamada, P. Matejovič) focused on the way how to do research on the literary field and the cultural memory of Peter Zajac, which is well demonstrated also in his theoretical reflection. The final conclusion that follows from this observation is that metaphors of a complex transport node or a gate are quite adequate in the description of the Slovak culture borderland paradigm.