The essay examines the attempts of Srečko Kosovel, Ferdo Delak, Ivan Mrak, Slavko Grum, and their contemporaries to develop contemporary, modern, modernist, or avant-garde drama. Their dramatic writings and conceptual approaches were highly diverse, a diversity that can partly be explained by anomalies in the distribution and reception of their texts, concepts, and performances. However, in line with Marko Juvan, who interprets Kosovel’s oeuvre “as an eminent symptom of modernism as a system of divergent sociolects responding to a shared set of problems,” these works can also be understood as part of a broader modernist discourse.
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