This thesis is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the novel S poti (From the Road) by art historian, writer, translator, and diplomat Izidor Cankar. The work was written in 1913 and published in serial form in the magazine Dom in Svet (The Home and the World). Izidor Cankar wrote the novel in parallel with his doctoral dissertation on the Italian Baroque painter Giulio Quaglio. His studies led him to travel through northern Italy in 1911, providing him with the conceptual basis for the novel. In this work, I focused on the visual arts, presenting various works of art that can be found in the novel and which still raise important questions in art history today. In addition, based on the topic discussed, I have attempted to show how the author used the visual arts theme
to present his own aesthetic tensions. In the second part of the thesis, I dealt with the question of the novel’s reception and presented the main critiques and studies that have been written over the past century. I also addressed the problem of defining the genre of the novel and attempted to place it in Slovenian literary history using these categories.
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