The paper looks at subjectivism in the mature short prose works of Slavko Grum written in the period 1925 to 1930, in which the narrator is a schizophrenic personality whose identity is lost in others and whose feelings are dispersed. Three elements receive particular emphasis: love (decadent erotica and the image of the woman), the theme of death and the appearance of place. The author demythologises the stereotypes of the prostitute and the mother. In his imagination we can see the influence of Ivan Cankar's novel Hiša Marije Pomočnice. In Grum's short prose, death is frequently present, especially suicide. Place is fantastically, grotesquely transformed through an atmosphere of fear, anxiety and erotic desire. Slavko Grum could be considered as a predecessor of the Modernist and Existentialist Slovene prose after the Second Warld War.
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