This article examines the role of smell in selected works by Tone Partljič, focusing on the play Moj ata, socialistični kulak (My Father, the Socialist Kulak; 1984), the memoir Slišal sem, kako trava raste (I Heard the Grass Grow; 1990), and the autobiographical novel Pesnica (2019). The analysis focuses on the transformation of olfactory motifs across media and time periods, and the transition from the sociocritical role of smells in Partljič’s earlier works to their function as a bridge between the past and present in his later writing.
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