SPACE AND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL PRESENTATION IN SLOVENE HISTORICAL NARRATIVES
Descriptions of life in Ljubljana were more frequent and are known as the Ljubljana tale genre. The main content in Tavcar's »novella« Janez Solnce (1885-1886) is a literary representation of a historical report about the ceremony during the visit of emperor Leopold I in Ljubljana in 1660. The...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Slavistična revija 2012-07, Vol.60 (3), p.443 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Descriptions of life in Ljubljana were more frequent and are known as the Ljubljana tale genre. The main content in Tavcar's »novella« Janez Solnce (1885-1886) is a literary representation of a historical report about the ceremony during the visit of emperor Leopold I in Ljubljana in 1660. The exceptional amount of historical data in this work cause it to resemble Jurcic's Ivan Erazem Tatenbach and later novels, written by professors. The nineteenth-century separation of historiographical data from fiction is most evident in two of Bohinjc's stories, both of which take place in Ljubljana. The Najmlajsi mojster, »a tale from 1608« [The youngest master 1896], is not only set in Ljubljana, but its main subject is the Ljubljana residents and their life. The Ljubljana tale does not always have a historical theme and can therefore be categorized under other genres. Examples are Miroslav Malovrh's novels Pod novim orlom [Under a new eagle 1904], V Studentskih ulicah [In Students Streets 1910], and Zaljubljeni kapucin [A Capuchin in love 1910], and Umirajoce duse [Dying Souls 1929] by Ilka Vaste, as well as Jus Kozak's Sentpeter [Saint Peter 1931]. The Ljubljana earthquake of Easter Sunday (14 April) 1895 was the subject of reportages and sensational treatments. Grozni dnevi potresa v Ljubljani [Terrifying days during the earthquake in Ljubljana] and Velikonedeljski potres v Ljubljani 14. aprila 1895 l. in cesarjev obisk [The Easter Sunday earthquake in Ljubljana on 14 April 1985 and the emperor's visit] were both published in 1895. The Ljubljana earthquake was also the topic of several novels, like Potresna povest [Earthquake tale 1903] by Fran Maselj Podlimbarski and Tereza by Katarina Marincic (1989). Inspired by the anniversary of earthquake and by the tender of a literary award, Jani Virk and Kajetan Kovic used the Ljubljana earthquake as a background in their love stories. Jani Virk published 1895, potres [1895, earthquake] in 1995. In 1996, Kajetan Kovic's Profesor domisljije: Ljubljanska zgodba [The professor of phantasy: A Ljubljana tale], appeared. It was a kind of Ljubljana Madame Bovary. The local-historical genre has been productive recently, being fueled by family and genealogical research, as in Vinko Korosak's Kmecka dinastija [A Rural dynasty 2003], Ivanka Mestnik's Grenki kruh [Bitter bread 2003]; archeological excavations, as in Rasto Bozic's Mesto situl [City of urns 2008]; and sometimes tourist interest, like in Dusan Merc, Potopljeni zvon [Dr |
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ISSN: | 0350-6894 1855-7570 |