Étos a etika literárních postav současné slovenské a české prózy (M. Viewegh a P. Weiss)

The author of this article deals with something called "new ethics". The concept comes from the Spanish researcher J. L. Abellan, who, in his book "Thoughts for the 21st Century," writes about the great trends that mankind will experience in the 21st century. Among the trends he describes are forms of new ethics. This new ethics (or rather lack of ethics) can be found in the texts of other contemporary writers such as the Czech writer Michal Viewegh and the Slovak Pavel Weiss. The author asserts that in their novels these writers show how the ethics of contemporary man is being formed and what determines and influences him. It is a critical picture, and the result shows that progress does not always lead to "a better tomorrow" or to a brighter future, but exactly the opposite. Motives for unethical behavior, drugs, dealing, fraud, etc. appear in these texts.