Anthropological Realities and Literary Visions by Ivan Cankar
by
Irena Avsenik Nabergoj
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The book shows Ivan Cankar (1876–1918) as the first Slovenian writer to examine the human conscience, justice, guilt and punishment in a way comparable to Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and influenced also by the Bible. Given Cankar’s own bitter childhood experience of poverty and his awareness...