The metaphors of flowers, paradise, and Christ with emphasis on the aesthetic function in Cankar's novels exist in contrast to metaphors and symbols originating in the thematic areas of ugliness, i. e., black, muddy valley, swamp, black water, jail, etc. There are obvious intertextual connections between the metaphors of his novels and those of his short prose, as the essential sources of Cankar's metaphor were established before he wrote his novelistic prose.
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