Martin Kačur Cankar, Ivan; Cox, John K
03/2009
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The novel Martin Kačur, which dates from 1907, tells the engrossing story of a young schoolteacher who moves from one provincial Slovene town to the next, trying to enlighten his countrymen and ...countrywomen but instead receiving only the mistrust and scorn of the traditional-minded and petty population. The novel is ruthless in its analysis and self-analysis of the failure of this abstract idealist.
Title: Slovenci inJugoslovani (The Slovenes and the Yugoslavs) Originally published: a lecture at the social-democratic society Vzajemnost, 12 April, 1913, published in the social democrat’bulletin, ...Zarja, 15–17 April, 1913 Language: SloveneThe excerpts used are from Ivan Cankar, Izbrana dela (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1973), pp. 314–326. About the author Ivan Cankar 1876, Vrhnika (Ger. Laibach Altober, present-day Slovenia) -1918, Ljubljana (Ger. Laibach): story writer, playwright, poet...
CHAPTER THREE Ivan Cankar
Martin Kačur,
03/2009
Book Chapter
It was fall and Blatni Dol already lay in darkness and frost. Gray, unwelcoming light penetrated the room.
The child slept in a crib. His face was round, bright, and at peace.
“Don’t yell like that ...when the child is asleep!” Kačur hissed. “Wait till he’s awake. Then you can shout as much as you want!”
The woman’s face was flushed and streaked with tears.
“So I’m not supposed to shout? I nurse the child, change his diapers, and get up with him at night! But what do you do for him? You don’t lift a finger! And now you
CHAPTER THREE Ivan Cankar
Martin Kačur,
03/2009
Book Chapter
Ferjan and Kačur were sitting in the conference room. Kačur cowered there with his hands upon his knees. His face looked old and clay-colored, and his blood-rimmed eyes were dull.
Ferjan, already ...rather corpulent, starting to gray, was visibly nervous and uncomfortable. He crumpled a piece of paper in his hand and stared at the table.
“We were once colleagues,” he said, taking a quick peek at Kačur’s profile next to him. “Colleagues and friends! By God, I did not violate this friendship, and whenever some stupidity got in the way, we took care of it as appropriate. But, look
CHAPTER THREE Ivan Cankar
Martin Kačur,
03/2009
Book Chapter
Kačur was making his way to the conference room when his colleague, the teacher Ferjan, came up behind him on the stairs and grabbed his coat.
“Hang on a second!—If you don’t want them to totally ...wring your neck in there, take my advice: be submissive, bow, and say yes, even if they offer to lynch you. These scoundrels can handle anything save pride or protest. Be humble and repentant, and smile, and by evening you’ll have incited all Zapolje to rebellion, if sedition is such a big deal to you. Of me they say I am a drinker
