Zusammenfassung
Flis discusses Slovenia's contemporary literature. Slovenia is a nation who has struggled for independence, and who has always, despite hardships, managed to find hope through the written word.
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Contemporary Slovene Literature
IF THE name Ljubljana, Slovenia's capital sounds exotic and foreign, and if keeping Slovenia and Slovakia apart seems a somewhat formidable task, one should not get so discouraged as to disregard the literary activity of Slovenia, a country that, for a long time, lived with the stigma of being the Terra Incognita of Central Europe.
In 1905, when moving to Italy, the great James Joyce himself got off the train in Ljubljana, thinking he had already arrived in the Northeastern Italian city of Trieste. This story became legendary and it might on occasion assume the function of a kind of comforting pillow for those who don't feel too confident about their geographical, as well as historical background. At least in those days both cities were part of the Habsburg Empire.The reference to Joyce may in fact be apt, when discussing Slovenia's contemporary literature. There are parallels between our tiny population of two million and that of Joyce's Ireland. We too are a nation who has struggled for independen...Siehe den Gesamtinhalt dieses Dokumentes
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