The study introduces the focus of current research on modernism in Slovak literature, which has moved from the interpretation of modernism as a homogeneous phenomenon to the study of its various forms and manifestations (variations), with an emphasis on transitions (temporal aspect) and penetrations (spatial aspect). The starting premise is the awareness of the heterogeneity of modernist tendencies in the first half of the 20th century, which challenges the monolithic character of modernism and allows registering its paradoxical and contradictory manifestations (modernisms). In the second part, the paper presents open topics in the research of Slovak modernism from the beginning of the 20th century, and concerns issues such as the reassessment of the representation of women in modernist discourse, the re-reading of spiritual poetry, or the multidirectional extension of generic-genological analysis.
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