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  • Otherness and the contemporary Slovene novel
    Zupan Sosič, Alojzija
    In this paper, three contemporary Slovene novels are discussed in which the otherness of the literary figure is closely linked to the otherness of the literary language used: Vitomil Zupan's Journey ... to the End of Spring, Berta Bojetu-Boeta's Filio is Not at Home and Lojze Kovačič's Childhood Things. The otherness of these novels is not only confirmed primarily within the context of the contemporary Slovene novel, but also in comparison with the world stage, where the Slovene novel represents a minority literature. The novel Journey to the End of Spring is different because of the main character Tajsi, who is an erotomaniac, a compulsive writer and a picaresque figure; as well as the otherness of the protagonist, the dynamics of the poetics is also shaped by the modernist narrative connected with the universal category of the neo-picaresque. The contribution of the novel Filio is Not at Home to the sense of otherness lies in the generic syncretism of dystopia, as well as in in the eponymous female character whose name, Filio, indicates a vision of the female and male principles being brought together. In the new millennium, the greatest sense of otherness has been brought to the Slovene context by the autobiographical novel Childhood Things, particularly the child's perspective, the unreliable narrator and enigmatic descriptions. The very technique of this autobiographical novel is also different, combining realist and modernist poetics into realistic modernism; this connects smoothly with the difference of the main character Bubi, who in spite of his young age (from newborn to eleven years old) expresses himself with merciless candour, an innovative critical stance, radical provocation and consistent nonconformism.
    Vir: Forum for world literature studies. - ISSN 1949-8519 (Vol. 9, no. 1, Mar. 2017, str. 38-51)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2017
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 64058722

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