This master thesis examines the impact and reception of the South African Nobel laureate John Maxwell Coetzee in Slovene literary criticism, essay writing and literature. The editions of the translated Coetzee's novels into Slovene and their reception among Slovene literary critics in newspaper and magazine publications and essays, chronologically arranged, represent the central part of the research. This part of the research is divided into four sections; the milestone between the first two sections is Coetzee's winning the Nobel prize for literature in 2003. The third section discusses Coetzee's autobiographical project – the trilogy Scenes from Provincial Life. The last part of the thesis is dedicated to the impact of Coetzee in the prose fiction of two Slovene authors: Evald Flisar and Urban Vovk. Firstly, it outlines the biographical parallels between Flisar and Coetzee, and then it focuses on the impact of Coetzee in Flisar's novel Moje kraljestvo umira (My Kingdom is Dying), and compares it with Coetzee's novel Slow Man. Secondly, it mainly focuses on the influence of Coetzee's autobiography in Vovk's short prose debut Garaže (Garages).
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