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.
Martin Kacur Cankar, Ivan; Cox, John K
03/2009
eBook
The novel Martin Kacur, 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.Brilliant descriptions of Slovenia's natural beauty alternate with the haze of alcoholic despair, rural violence, marital alienation, and the death of a young and beloved child. The Slovene prose writer, poet, and dramatist Cankar's characterizations of duplicitous political and religious leaders (the village priest, the mayor, other teachers, doctors, etc.) and the treacherous social scene are remarkable in their engaging clarity. No doubt the raw emotional impact of Martin Kacur derives partly from Cankar's portrayal of the way society isolates people, denying them sympathy and solidarity. Cankar's style here owes a debt both to naturalism and to symbolism and contains, in its sometimes frantic pace and associative interior monologues, hints of early expressionism.
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...
Introduction Ivan Cankar
Martin Kačur,
03/2009
Book Chapter
The Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) asserted in her long essay on the history of Antigua that “all masters of every stripe are rubbish, and all slaves of every stripe are noble and ...exalted.”¹ Josip Vidmar, a major literary historian and once the President of the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences, declared that Ivan Cankar, in a radically different setting, held analogous views: “whoever is a victim is pure and exalted” and it is the “‘humiliated and outraged’ of this world” who are “spiritually close to his heart” and receive his “proud melancholy love.”² This notion certainly captures
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
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
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