The modern part of the contemporary Slovene historical novel develops a modern philosophy of history. This philosophy relativizes the modern-time concept of history as progression of social-historical stages, abolishes the historical linear temporality and turns it into an eternal cycle of stations without development and meaning. It reveals the passing of history as - paradoxically - always the same nihilistic, repressive social game of power. Therefore the modern historical novel simultaneously realizes the types of historical-philosophical and of fictional historical novel: its philosophy of history reveals the modern-time concept of history as a construction, fiction,or, rather, just a story.
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