The article tests the theoretical model with which to explain the battery of procedures in the modernization of the Slovene novel, which abandons, widens, and replaces the realistic conventions of mimetic narration. It discovers lyricism on the level of plot, formation of characters, composition, and language organization. The lyricied, and to an even greater extent, the lyrical novel is a polysemantic text, saturated with associations, resisting logical totalization, insisting on openness, the unfinished character of prosesses and states, and on the fact that the chaotic world is mysterious and uncontrollabe. The opening of the imaginary space to artistic construction,literary self-awarness, and linguistic exploration is presented with the analysis of the novels by Josip Stritar, Ivan Cankar, Miško Kranjec, Ciril Kosmač, Lojze Kovačič, Marjan Tomšič and Nina Kokelj, who exceed the inherited conventions with lyrization and redirect the traditional novel into symbolism, modernism, and postmodernism.
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