The Polish and Slovene prose of the 1990s is charaterised, among other things, by three concepts of the presented world: 1. the recording of facts, events and standpoints; 2. imaginative palimpests; 3. the search for compromise between the emotionally and intellectually perceived world and the secretive, trapped by the eternal laws of existence. There has been a noticeable shift in the writer’s attitude to mimesis, which ever more frequently reveals its inadequacy as an element of the literary game. The novellas of Vlado @abot (Bukovska mati), Olga Tokarczuk (Omara, Deus ex ...) and Pawel Huelle (Miza, Stric Henrik) vary between the second and third of the above options.
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