Vidurio Europos komparatyvistikos pamokos. The comparatyvistic’s lessons of Central Europe

Two Czech and Slovak comparative literature authorities, their ideas, goals, research instrumentation used are introduced in this article. Two different history and literaty history investigation methodologies exhibit not only two differen literatology traditions but idealogies too. Vladimir Svaton, one of the greatest contemporary Czech comparatists, is an exponent of classical comparativism whose approach to history is based on a linear conception of history and idea of progressive consciousness. Such approach and such idea are determined by belief in progress: all comparative inadequacies will be noted and mistakes corrected, with time. The review map of Slovak comparatist Peter Zajac can be regarded as a model of cyclic time theory, which in essence ignores the linear time ideology, presenting other possibilities of comparing different literaturies. In this approach one could interpret the review map as the project of realizing those higher comparative goals.