The novel by Luiza Pesjak - due to the unconventional decision to present it in the form of a diary - occupies a special place in Slovene literature. The diary novel is based on the diary as a form of manuscript and personal communication, through which, by means of a fictional first-person narrator and through publication, the narrator can free him/herself from the practical and manuscript context and thus literalise her/himself, creating the foundation for the origin of the literary genre of diary novel. The article considers the so far overlooked mediality of the novel, i.e. how the communicational form of the diary, through which the artistic work expresses and mediates itself, influences the content and concept, as well as the formal-structural level of the work.
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