| Summary: | The article deals with a problem of self-identification in the literary works of Vladimír Mináč. It comes out at two concepts of self-identification – an individual experience and a collective, confessional or national concept while the ambition is to depict it in universal terms. The literary work of Vladimír Mináč is an illustration of mutual interaction between two poles of self-identification mentioned above. Both of the poles condition each other, overlap and reshuffle depending on contemporary cultural and social context. Both aspects are not in an opposite contrary positions, they complete each other dialectically. Mináč comes with his own version of the “national history” rooted in romantic traditions. Except of diachronic, rep. historical perspective which is an ideological fundament of Minač´s concept the important distinctive feature is also synchronic perspective represented by the country, Minač builds his all life personal relationship to. In his prosaic and essayistic works he often turns his attention to her as she means a refuge for him, his solid wall resistant against attacks of the outer world. The country appears in many forms („existential“, „constructional“, „romantic“, „private“), while she also represents a topically-thematic invariant placing over controversy and chaos of the people’s world. The article is inspired by the works of Jan Assman (Kultura a paměť – Culture and Memory), Paul Ricouer (Čas a literárne rozprávanie – The Time and Literary Narration), Oskár Čepan, Rudolf Chmel and Milan Šútovec. The text is a part of a monograph of the literary works of V. Mináč that is focused on the motif of country in his literary works.
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