The Myth of Antigone and the Post-War Massacres in Slovene Literary Reception
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Miran Jarc, Dominik Smole, Tone Svetina, Nada Gaborovič, World War II in the Slovene landsAbstract
In Slovene literary history and comparative literature, the connection between the Antigone myth and the Slovene post-war massacres, most influentially formulated by Tine Hribar in his philosophical and political writings from the second half of the 1980s, is most often found in interpretations of Dominik Smole’s Antigona. The present article, which traces a century of Slovenian receptions of the Antigone myth from 1875 to 1974 – from its first appearance in Slovene to the first explicit portrayal of the World War II-era Slovene conflicts through its prism – demonstrates that literary connections between the myth and the country’s central historical trauma range well beyond Smole’s celebrated play.
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