The Concept of Central Europe in the Essays of Slovene Writer Drago Jančar

Abstract

In the paper we research the idea of Central Europe in the literary essays of Sloven writer Drago Jančar. Drago Jančar first - in the eighties - interpreted the idea of Central Europe as a collective cultural space and a place of freedom against all ideologies, especially socialistic -totalitarian ones.

In the nineties he began to accent just the historical context of this idea: he underlined the historically productive coexistence of different culture in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the beginning of 20 the Century.

Keywords

• Essays of Drago Jančar
• Slovene Literature
• the Idea of Central Europe
• Slovene Writers
• National Idea and Literature