Literatúra v živote, život v literatúre

The contribution deals with such artistic texts in Slovak literature which trough their themes are cinfronting experience of a literary character with a difficult verifiable social situation and his/her intimate memory. The author of the contribution has chosen artistic texts of the authors representing different generations; it means that the theme and the problem differ on the background of political, historical and social changes and experience. Thus, literature in the kaleidoscope records and interprets a dramatic relationship of man to politics and historical changes.