This thesis is formulated as an overview of novelistic work created by modern Slovenian writer Vitomil Zupan, while being a closer study of two leitmotifs, that are distinctly present in almost all of his creative output: disunity between sensitivity and wantonness, and the concept of dominance within the framework of sexuality.
In the research of disunity, I am concentrating on its two different versions: first, within a single individual — protagonist, and second embodied in the sidekick character that forms a reciprocal relationship with a protagonist. The part concerning dominance and sexuality as its field of action, polemicises with the established models of Zupan's eroticism, that have given sexuality connotation of a search for meaning and truth within the writer's work.
The concept of dominance does not get much recognition within these models, which is why I am questioning the reasons behind the avoidance of its problematization. I am also discussing sadism within some of the Zupan's protagonists, while studying their techniques of subordinating others. Lastly, I tackle the analysis of a correlation between sexuality and Zupan's writing.
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