The article focuses on the narrator in the Slovene novel of the second half of the 20 th c. from a specific, folkloristic, point of view. Literary criticism might in this case speak of the motif of the narrator or about the way (s)he is textualized and woven into the narrative fabric. Several novels were examined and for the purpose of this analysis seven were included. Kozak’s as well as Kocbek’s narrators fight off boredom, however, there is a contextual and intellectual difference between them. The composition of Potrč’s novel is based on the retrospective story that an inmate narrates to his fellow inmate during sleepless nights. In all of these cases only men are present in the exchange of the narrative. Ciril Kosmač and Miško Kranjec develop their novels based on the narratives that create and maintain the continuity of the individual family. Zidar’s authoritative narrator, who is at
the same time an individual listener in the novel of a thematized female narrator, responds to her familial story in an intellectual manner. These authors’ varieties of narrators and their companions in the monogamous or polygamous society are surpassed by Drago Jančar, who sends to Cologne a prominent, somewhat strange poppa from Ptuj, Tobija. In his duel with the story-teller, Jokl, from Landshutt, Jančar justifies the pitiful end of the famed pilgrimages from the Southern Austrian
provinces to the North-German province.
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