The radical subjectivity of modernism has paradoxically led the literary subject to the other, the alien within it. In this way the modern subject, established through enlightened humanism, began to lose a number of its determinants: (instrumental) rationality, unity, centeredness, (free) will, meaning, etc. These processes, which I call the de-subjectification of the subject and the final consequence of which is transformation into a non-subject, will be illustrated with the theme of alienation and the self-willed body in the selected Slovene modernist novels.
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