The paper deals with the potential influences of Maupassant's short story Le Horla upon Cankar's Na otoku, which have already been suggested by Ivan Pregelj (1919). The focus of the paper is on the framed narrative which can be found in both texts and in which a psychologically unstable asylum patient talks about his hallucinations. The author also writes about the reports on Maupassant's mental illness published in Slovene newspapers in 1892 and 1893, which have significantly marked the reception of the French writer in Slovenia.
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