Spaces of the Nation in the Context of Contemporary Slovenian Literature

Abstract

In the article the author deals with the positions that in literary canon occupy some authors of the Slovenian Littoral region: Ljubka Šorli, Vladimir Bartol and Boris Pahor, and describes the way they express the nation. The concept and/or place of the nation was the main theme of the Slovenian literature of the 19th century, and since then, also an object of some changes of the literary field, influenced by its polycentrism, centrifugal forces, the dissemination and the concept of the centre and the periphery. This way, in the 20th century and especially in the contemporary Slovenian literature, the nation has become a marginal issue, reflected also in the literary canon and in the interest the canon shows for the authors which still consider it their principal theme.