Contemporary literature contributes to the social debate on the values of Slovak society. In this chapter, I focus on interpreting two novels by well-known authors that were published after 2010. These novels received strong reviews from literary critics and aroused interest among the general public. The first is Irena Brežná’s (born 1950) Die undankbare Fremde (The Thankless Foreigner), originally written in German, and the second is Pavol Vilikovský’s (1941–2020) Pes na ceste (Dog on the Road). Both novels offer their own critical interpretation of the conflict between the individual and the ideological, political, and moral frameworks of society in the socialist and post-socialist periods. They are united by their shared belief that national identity is an important part of the complex spectrum of human identity. As well as criticising Slovak society, these novels contain motifs of self-colonisation, whereby the characters’ self-image is constructed to a certain extent in line with the expectations of a Western European audience. They also offer a ruthless analysis of the West’s relationship with Central and Eastern Europeans.