This thesis examines the narrator's role in shaping female characters in the contemporary Slovene novel, focusing on Maruša Krese’s Da me je strah? (Am I Afraid?) and Drago Jančar’s To noč sem jo videl (I Saw Her That Night). The starting premise is that a female literary character is never merely the sum of her actions, but depends above all on who narrates her, from which perspective, and with what degree of reliability. The theoretical part connects the narratological apparatus (narrator typology, focalization, reliability) with core concepts of feminist literary theory (personal voice, the nomadic subject, gender stereotypes).
The analysis reveals two opposite solutions to the same problem: the protagonist of Da me je strah? narrates her own story, which grants her genuine, if historically constrained, subjectivity, while Veronika Zarnik of To noč sem jo videl never receives a voice of her own, her image being constructed entirely through the testimonies of five other, unreliable narrators.
The comparison shows that narrative structure is never neutral but actively co-creates (or forecloses) female subjectivity.
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