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949.71 --- Geschiedenis van Joegoslavië en Servië --- Serbia --- -History --- 949.71Geschiedenis van Joegoslavië en ServiëSerbia -History --- 949.71 Geschiedenis van Joegoslavië en Servië --- History.

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The novel Martin Kačur, which dates from 1907, tells the engrossing story of a young schoolteacher who moves from one provincial Slovene town to the next, trying to enlighten his countrymen and countrywomen but instead receiving only the mistrust and scorn of the traditional-minded and petty population. The novel is ruthless in its analysis and self-analysis of the failure of this abstract idealist. Brilliant descriptions of Slovenia’s natural beauty alternate with the haze of alcoholic despair, rural violence, marital alienation, and the death of a young and beloved child. The Slovene prose writer, poet, and dramatist Cankar’s characterizations of duplicitous political and religious leaders (the village priest, the mayor, other teachers, doctors, etc.) and the treacherous social scene are remarkable in their engaging clarity. No doubt the raw emotional impact of Martin Kačur derives partly from Cankar’s portrayal of the way society isolates people, denying them sympathy and solidarity. Cankar's style here owes a debt both to naturalism and to symbolism and contains, in its sometimes frantic pace and associative interior monologues, hints of early expressionism.

Cankar, Ivan, --- T︠S︡ankar, Ivan, --- Цанкар, Иван, --- Slovenia --- Eslovènia --- L.R.S. (Ljudska republika Slovenija) --- Ljudska republika Slovenija --- LRS (Ljudska republika Slovenija) --- People's Republic of Slovenia --- Republic of Slovenia --- Republika Slovenija --- S.R.S. (Socijalistička Republika Slovenija) --- S.R. Slovenija --- Slovenii︠a︡ --- Slovenija --- Slowenien --- Socialist Republic of Slovenia --- Socialistična republika Slovenija --- Socijalistička Republika Slovenija --- SR Slovenija --- SRS (Socijalistička Republika Slovenija) --- Szlovénia --- Social life and customs --- Cankar, Ivan --- 1876-1918 --- Early 20th century, Fiction, Literature, Slovenia.

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In Avala Is Falling, Jovanović’s breakout success in 1978, a young woman challenges the expectations that teachers, parents, bus drivers, and doctors have for her. The “Avala” of the title refers to a mountain south of Belgrade which is home to some of Serbia’s most important nationalist monuments and shrines; it is also the site of the main mental hospital for the region, and its “falling” is the unexpected fulfillment of a prophecy from a traditional Serbian folk song. Jovanović’s use of stream of consciousness in her characters’ thinking and speaking, as well as of intertextuality in description and plot advancement heralded the arrival of an innovative new writer who was determined to break with the of traditional concerns of earlier women writers. This book is now recognized as much more than “jeans prose,” although the fame the book achieved under that characterization eventually pushed it to cult status. Jovanović is now considered a major avant-garde writer, whose stylistic innovations were as challenging as her women-centered themes.

Young women --- Serbia. --- 20th century, Avant-garde, Feminism, Fiction, Literature, Serbia, Women, Yugoslavia.

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