After Fran Levstik’s essay Deseti brat had been published in installments in 1863, Jurčič’s novel with the same title was published in 1866. In both works the title character only pretends to be the tenth brother, but the real tenth brother seems to be the one from the title of Anton Hribar’s poem of 1889. The poem was published shortly after the mysterious death of the prince Rudolf, therefore the appearance of the uncle the savior in the conclusion of the poem could be a metaphor for the
difficulties in the imperial family. The same way one could read the family short story Vaški pohajač by Fran Jaklič of 1893 and the social short story Hlapec Jernej in njegova pravica by Ivan Cankar of 1907.
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