The Slovenian dramatist, poet, literary critic and essayist Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) was one of the greatest Slovenian writers and stylists, as well as the pioneer of modern Slovenian literature. This book, a follow-up to the author's study Mirror of Reality and Dreams: Stories and Confessions of Ivan Cankar, is the second English-language monograph on Cankar's literary oeuvre. Whereas the first study focused on Cankar's social and moral criticism, this monograph sheds light on the mother and woman as portrayed in his works. Through the figure of the mother, Cankar reveals his delicate and subtle relation to weaker individuals in general; the figure of woman in his works illustrates his complicated, often two-fold, internally contradictory relation to love and sexuality.
- ISBN10 3653026695
- ISBN13 9783653026696
- Publish Date 30 December 2012 (first published 17 December 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Peter Lang GmbH
- Edition 200th ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 463
- Language English