A master's thesis represents themes of war and love in prose opus of Drago Jančar. Firstly it represents works which slightly express the themes. Then thesis discusses in details novels with those themes as mainly themes. The novel Katarina, the Peacock and the Jesuit is the first analyzed novel. It is about love between two people. Their story ends because of evilness. Other discussed novels – The Tree with no Name, I Saw Her That Night, And Love Itself – follow the example. The opposition between love and war is also the opposition between an individual and a crowd, privacy and publicity, between people who just want to live and those who in the name of ideology destroy others. Jančar stands on individual’s side, therefore are war and her consequences shown as negative.
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