At the beginning of his career the Slovene writer of short prose Lojze Kovačič placed postwar Ljubljana alongside the splendour and poverty of the large Mediterranean city of Luigi Compagnone, an Italian writer of the second half of the 20th century. Textual analysis shows that the city is the feature that best illustrates the restriction placed on the modern man lost in search for answers. The conditions in which both writers grew uphelped determine their different linguistic and stylistic approaches to short prose, in which the basic special features of the framing Slovene and Italian cultures remain untouched.
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