Woman in the Bourgeois Prose by Ivo Šorli

Abstract

The paper discusses Šorli's view of the woman and female characters in his bourgeois prose, which continues Kersnik's and Govekar's thematization of borgeois eroticism in Slovene literature. Šorli's typical female characters, e. g., loose women, coquettes, unfaithful wives, adulteresses, hysterical women, are connected with the author's decision to thematize bourgeois eroticism, in which there are some thematic similarities with Maupassant's prose, which Ivo Šorli also translated. Like Maupassant's work, Šorli's prose from the first half of the 20th c. includes a lot of male prejudice about women, which the author also knew from some well-known philosophical-psychological essays on the woman.