Dominik Tatarka (March 14, 1913 – May 10, 1989) a prose writer and author of fine art, cultural and social essays, is one of the most significant representatives of the 20th century Slovak culture. His first collection of short stories called V úzkosti hľadania (1942) is characterised by a trembling feeling of existential anxiety arising from tragic human fate.  The short story called Panna zázračnica (1944) represents Tatarka’s farewell with joyous iconoclasm of youth, while his short story called Farská republika (1948) tells a story of individual fight for preservation of humanity during inhumane wartime. At the beginning of the 1950s...