Globalisation has made the modern world more dynamic and has become something like "a test of survival" for all nations and national states. In these new conditions, Slovene authors (Andrej Blatnik, Evald Flisar, Jani Virk, Lojze Kovačič, Drago Jančar) try in a new way to identify their heroes as regional, European or world representatives, because by means of national, social and personal self-identification they find a way to correlate what is "theirs" with the universal. Slovene short prose of the 1990s reflects the contemporary Slovene experience and displays contradictions characteristic of the individual at a time of globalisation, who realises that he is both a citizen of the world and a native of a specific land speaking his native language and with his own historical memory.
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