Central Europe and the Slavs : (some reflections and remarks on the margin of the homonymous book by Ivo Pospíšil)

The author critically comments upon Ivo Pospíšil's work Central Europe and the Slavs (2006) compleleting it with some other illustrations and views, sometimes polemic ones. He appreciates Pospíšil's views of the role of Slavonic literatures in the world's literary development, especially his returns to traditions and to the significant European slavists, such as Matija Murko and Frank Wollman in the sense of the aesthetic values of Slavonic literatures. He argues with Pospíšil's critical remarks on his own article concerning the subject of "world literature and world literatures" in which Dorovský polemized with the conception of the authors' team of the publication The 20th-Century World Literatures (1999) headed by I. Pospíšil. He explains his conceptions - according to his conviction - misunderstood or misinterpreted by Pospíšil and manifests that from the complex of the so-called world literatures, i.e. those which - due to I. Pospíšil - gave the literature in the world the strongest poetological impulse, some other literatures, e. g. Polish or new Greek, cannot be excluded - also due to their Nobel laureates. Otherwise, the author evaluates Pospíšil's book favourably as original and contributive.