Conservative resistence as a part of literary development

The author of the present study deals with the traditional and conservative values in the literary creations of the "swan song" of European Romanticism on the novel fragments of A. S. Pushkin and in the period at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st centuries. According to his view, the literature tending towards traditional and conservative values: 1) expresses its disagreement with current changes; 2) manifests a certain degree of nostalgia; 3) demonstrates the attempts at social alternatives; 4) tries to defend certain values. Traditionalism and conservative values could be substantially found on the following three levels: 1) traditional and thematic intentions; 2) returns and specific features of authenticity; 3) constructing enclaves of tradition in the core of the newest aesthetic currents. The first example is linked with Yuri Bondarev's novel The Bermuda Triangle (2000). Then there are the genres based mainly on romantic literature creating the peculiar world of virtual authenticity, i. e. they revalue traditional genre models and patterns often applying metatext or quasimetatext in connection with the genre basis of a detective or a scifi story. The author manifests that such works by J. K. Rowling or Dan Brown had its predecessors even in Czech literature (L. Souček) and that this tendency is still present here (M. Urban). The author also writes about the novel chronicle written by the half-forgotten Slovak prose writer Jozef Hnitka (1913-1992) ("the literature of beneficial screeching and friction"): the genre structure, the language and the style are often opposed to each other expressing the author's conviction that the world is much more complicated than the traditional model of literature allows to demonstrate. The final passage is devoted to contemporary memoirs of L. Štaidl and posthumously published memoirs by J. Kolárová.