Postmodern culture announces ethos of respect for nature, which outlines a new critical paradigm. This allows an approach to reading texts from position of ecosensitive openings of their semantic field and on the other side it generates its own canon of literature. This type of text appears also in the Slovak context. As an example we introduce the work of I. Laučíka.
postmodernism; ecoliterature; ecocriticism; ecosensitive reading; Slovak context