9848 KB25 KB197220251999Čeh Steger, Jožicaletnik:26številka:posebna izdajaISSN:0351-5141COBISSID:9159432URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-DYOCHJP8slMariborska knjižnicaPedagoška fakultetaOtrok in knjigaCankar, Ivan, 1876-1918literarni likimetaforikaotrokSlovene literatureslovenska književnostLik in metafora otroka v dunajski dobi Cankarjeve kratke pripovedne proze|Cankar's child figure in his short story writing can be traced from the early creative beginning. The child figure was almost noticed in his youthful period of short story writings, but he was already present in a quarter of published short stories in his Vienna's period (1900-1909) as a main or side person. After 1910 this figure occupied a central position in his ethic-declarative short story. In that period, periodic press or short stories collections published approximately twenty short stories with a child figure. The prevailing figure is a growing up and erotically awake girl (12 years old), while 7 or 8-year-old boys (some girls, too) place themselves among true children. Children figures of Cankar's Vienna period come from the bottom of the social scale. Either they are from a market town-village environment or from Viennese suburbs; from collapsing families with alienated and broken human relationships, from the environment with acclimatised poverty, famine, sickness, mutilation, immoderate drinking, beating and sexualmolesting of innocent girls. His children's figures only partially reflect the real picture of a child as an auxiliary labourer in rural-working families at the break of the century. Their image is symbolised by the author's literary subjectivism and his forming principle of contrast. We may speak about a macrometaphorical copy of ideas, ethic and social emotions (when speaking about a girl's figure even erotic) from Cankar's figure of an artist (a mother or a worker, too) upon a child. His figure as the artist himself run away from ugly, hostile and cruel reality into their inner world of beauty, the world of social, existential, native (girls, even erotic) vearning, which remains unrealised and often tragic. As the author his characters are capable of deep and sensitive compassion, as well as ethic evaluation of themselves and others. The affinity between the author and his child is also put into a metaphor. The child's initial area of his imagination, fragility, gentleness and purity is loved to be copied upon the author and persons capable of yearningTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaMariborska knjižnica