Modernist World Literature in Slovene (National) Cultural Space
Modernist World Literature in Slovene (National) Cultural Space

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the question of relations between world literature and national literatures. It represents Franco Moretti’s concept of world literature and confronts it with Erich Auerbach’s rejection of the two versions of universalization of world literature. The article proceeds with a short confrontation of realist and modernist poetics through references to György Lukács’ and Theodor Adorno’s opinions on Realism and to some contemporary ICLA’s opinions on Modernism that were articulated in ICLA’s collection A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (2007). This confrontation of realist and modernist poetics serves as a short description of Slovene modernist literature and its cultural specialities in the context of modernist world literature. In this respect, Slovene national literature, especially its modernist period, confirms Moretti’s concept of world literature as »one, and unequal«. However, the article tends towards the interpretation of Moretti’s concept in a more special way that, accepting Moretti’s stress on literary forms as »the abstracts of social relationships«, turns attention to national literature in the context of a (national) cultural space.

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