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Reception
Jaroš takes the potential of the Slovak narrative to the level of deeply structured art and orientates it towards the highest of ambitions. He is a great, robust prose writer who does not only represent a major presence, but also one who actively transforms the literary process of his day. (Pavol Števček)Jaroš`s specific vision of the world is that he guides the destinies of his characters to the limits of tragedy and comedy. Lovemaking and dying are two poles spanned by contrasting, controversial life that passes lightly as if bereft of tragic counterpoint. Lovemaking is poetry and death is almost always a bizarre event that occurs under circumstances that deny it. He drowns it in the vitality of life. A robust and joyful vitality issues from each page of Jaroš`s novel, hence its strength. (Vladimír Petrík )
In Jaroš`s prose we find various modalities of all aesthetic categories: the beautiful and ugly, the tragic and comic, the high and low. Their mutual interplay finally results in his typical grimace. This grimace lurks in the background of his entire work even when it is not always obvious in individual works or episodes. (Viktor Timura)
Another marked feature of Jaroš`s writing since early 1970`s is the fact that he tends to accentuate a sharply defined (from the point of view of both society and politics) Slovak and Slavonic context, bringing more and more cultural and historical facts from this region into literature. (Zora Prušková)
