Dobrota Pucherová · The Public Domain Review · 2025
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Partially banned upon publication and translated into English for the first time this year, René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences (1783–85) found new readers in the communist era thanks to its critiques of feudalism, capitalism, and the Catholic Church.
Why we picked it
Pucherová recovers a genre-defying Slovak novel whose imagined travels illuminate censorship, empire, religion, and the shifting political uses of literature.
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