Written on the occasion of a triple anniversary (the twentieth anniversary of Professor Marja Boršnik’s passing; thirty years since the publication of her monograph Ivan Tavčar leposlovni ustvarjalec I, 1863–1893; a hundred and forty years since the period analyzed), the article is an attestation of the multi-layered meaning of the word heart. Marja Boršnik’s monograph comprehensively treats the style of Tavčar’s literary work, thus the present analysis is a mere accessory to it. Excerpts of one or more words from Tavčar’s novel Mrtva srca (the second edition of the novel) are analyzed semantically in the context of Marja Boršnik’s findings. Adherence to two perspectives, i.e., the author’s and the literary-historical, reveals the intertwining of various, even prophetic, dimensions.
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