The paper tackles the problem of the young-adult realistic novel, since, according to the European theories, the novel of this type does not exist in young-adult literature. Because of young reader's limited perception capabilities, themes, motifs, characterization of characters, and other literary-theoretical categories defining the structure of the novel are narrowed in young-adult long prose. However, some young-adult works show a sufficient amount of typically novelistic elements that they could be considered novels, even if they are aimed at twelve-to thirteen-year-old readers (the period of teenage literature). Slovene young-adult realistic novel is represented by four genres: adventurous, erotic, social-psychological, and the jeans young-adult novels. Novelistic genres are often intertwined, i. e., a literary work belongs to one particular genre, but it may include characteristics of other genres as well, i. e., genre syncretism
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