Cankar's Unwritten novels - a model for self-conscious narration

Živančević-Sekeruš, Ivana (author)

In his sketch Unwritten Novels (1914), Ivan Cankar formulates through narrative voices his ideas on the nature of the creative process in literature. Cankar foresees the technique for revealing the thoughts andfeelings flowing through the mindof the character, known as stream of consciousness, and thus heralds the modern psychological novel. Unwritten Novels is an exquisite example of early self-conscious narration in the South Slavic literatures, which precedes works such as Vladan Desnica%s novel Springs ofIvan Galeb (1957) andis significant in the scope of South Slavic literary history for its innovative narrative strategy.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Slovene literature, Slovene novel, sketch, metafiction, self-consious narration, 20th century, Ivan Cankar
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2003
• Number of pages: Str. 93-96
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-162427
• UDC: 821.163.6.09-3Cankar I.
• COBISS.SI-ID: 71815778
• Publication date in RUL: 23.09.2024

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Slovenski roman
• Editors: Miran Hladnik, Gregor Kocijan
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Center za slovenščino kot drugi/tuji jezik pri Oddelku za slovenistiko Filozofske fakultete
• Year: 2003
• ISBN: 961-237-058-3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 125833472
• Collection title: Obdobja
• Collection numbering: 21
• Collection ISSN: 1408-211X

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

V črtici Nenapisani romani (1914) Ivan Cankar s posredovanjem pripovednih glasov formulira svoje ideje o značilnostih ustvarjalnega postopka v literaturi. Cankar predvidi tehniko za razkrivanje misli in občutij, ki se pretakajo v junakovi zavesti, znano kot tok zavesti, in napoveduje moderni psihološki roman. Črtica Nenapisani romani je izvrsten primer zgodnje pripovedi samozavedanja v južnoslovanskih literaturah, predhodnik del, kot je npr. roman Pomladi Ivana Galeba (1957) Vladana Desnice, in je v južnoslovanski literarni zgodovini pomembna zaradi inovativnega pripovednega postopka.

• Keywords: slovenska književnost, slovenski roman, črtica, pripoved samozavedanja, metafikcija, 20. st., literarne študije, Ivan Cankar