The article deals with the Slovak literature after the «tender» revolution in 1989, the main tendencies of the development of the Slovak literature. The author marks continuity between the writers of the 1990 s. and the 1960 s., for whom were characterized by attention to everyday private life, interes to small literary genres etc. However, in the late 1990s – early 2000s. the attempt was made to investigate the topic of totalitarism, of internal un-liberty of human, to approach to study of the events of history with post-ideological positions. Particular attention author pays the creative work of Ján Johanides, Lajos Grendel, Igor Otčenáš, Pavel Vilikovský, Pavel Hrúz etc.