The Slovene short story in English translation: survey and considerationsCooper, Henry R. (Avtor) Slovene literatureSlovene proseshort proseSlovene short storytranslations into EnglishSlovene-English literary translationThe Slovene short story in English translation is a small but important window through which the English-reading world can see Slovenia as it is imagined by some of its finest writers. Just since 1991 over 130 short stories have been published by more than three dozen Slovene authors, about a quarter of whom are women. The themes of most of these stories show Slovenia in a somewhat grim light, with tales of escape (through suicide, travel, fantasy, insanity), horror stories about family life (often detailing crimes against or by children), and explicit vivisections of male-female relationships abounding. Many of these stories lack any Slovene couleur locale; the only characteristic that makes them Slovene is their language. The paper makes particular note of English translations done by Slovene authors themselves (specifically Branko Gradišnik, Evald Flisar, Uroš Kalčič, Maja Novak, and Andrej Skubic), and the liberties author-translators take when rendering their works in a new linguistic environment. It speculates a bit on the nature and future of what might be considered to be a new genre.20062024-06-10 11:33:36Neznano158441UDK: 821.163.6:81'25COBISS_ID: 25781549OceCobissID: 229730560sl