In recent Slovene prose Slovene women as novel-writers explicitly appear particularly at the turn of the millennium, i. e., after 1980. Their literary writing is very heterogeneous, but often they break the standard literary patterns and polemicize with the notion of femininity in literature, applying irony and sarcasm. Their novels reveal new, even taboo topics, which is connected with the desire for innovation on stylistic and linguistic planes. The women authors combine - also in the context of then-fashionable postmodernism - everyday and trivial myths, while their texts bring a montage and parody of various language patterns from the canonized Slovene and foreign literature, from the world of film, television, various media information, etc. The novels reveal the personal pain of the women authors caused by the intractable duality and internal conflict in which they find themselves as intellectuals in the still phallocentrically oriented society. The paper discusses the novelistic work of Brina Švigelj Mérat (Brina Svit) and Vesna Milek.
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