Detstvo a staroba v próze slovenského realizmu

The study focuses on forms of appearance of childhood and old age in selected prose works of Slovak literary realism. The focus of the analysis are Kukučín's prose works from the school setting and Tajovský's short stories with a dominant character of a grandfather. In works of both authors the memoir type of prose can be found, which was inspired by memories of their childhood and strong autobiographical elements of children characters. For Tajovský, there is a tendency to harmonic imaging childhood and old age as a symbiosis of the two period of human being.