A love story of a Slovenian intellectual lies at the bases of the first Slovenian novel, Deseti brat, by Josip Jurčič and of Jani Virk's novel, 1895, potres. Both novels use the cliché of great, fatal love as an escape from the exsistential crisis. The romantic approach in Jurčič's case offers a naive sentimental story, filled with a multitude of obstacles, whereas in the postmodernistic work of Virk one can sense a mild parody of this motif, presented through a much more susual and passionate love story. The difference between the romantic and the postmodern interpretaion of the same problem is reflected in the segment of the structure such as the construction of the personalities, the presentation pf time, space, the composition and style.
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