Dušan Mitana had started to write his novela My Native Cemetery two years before the publication of his debut. It was supposed toparody the memoir genre.The first fragment about the old grave digger and his son came out in the magazine Mladá tvorba in 1968 under the titleA Grave Cut Out for a Wedding Night.The next chapter was supposed to be published in 1970 in the final issue of the magazine which was, however, scrapped due to communist censorship. The author had finished and published the book only after the revolution.