One of the fundamental characteristics of the narrative work of Lojze Kovačič is the recurrence of diverse themes, scenes, images, parts of text, or summaries of fragments from his own life story from one of his texts in a subsequent text or an entire series of texts. Within the paradigm of intertextuality, the rewriting of one’s own previously written “themes” can also be labeled self-quotation, autotextuality, or even autointertextuality. The placement of any quotation in a new textual setting and rewriting with recontextualization always involves some transformation of the text, and thus requires more careful rereading of the hypotext(s) and the series of texts created in this manner. They reveal and simultaneously support the recognisability and coherence of a writer’s work and
contribute to the understanding of its identity. In this paper, I deal in three steps with examples of recurring threads in Kovačič’s Zgodbes panjskih končnic . At the forefront of the first is the rewriting of two puppet plays and a radio play in a collection of stories, the second treats the intertextual series Zgodba o Klemenu in njegovi ljubezni, and the last draws attention to some foreign and domestic literary and semi-literary hypotexts and intertextual references to the folk tradition.
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