Next to my Door the Death is wating : Luring of Death : Decadent Tendencies in the Poetry of Vida Jeraj
2019
Abstract
The topics of the article are the decadent tendencies in the poetry and life of the first Slovenian female lyricist Vida Jeraj (Franica Vovk, 1875-1932) who was a vital part of the Slovenian modernism network (}}Slovenian moderna(() in Bled (Zasip) and Vienna. She began to write in the context of the transformation of Central European culture of which Slovenia was a part of until the end of the First World War.
Jeraj belonged to the generation of young cosmopolitan women writers who broke through in in the Fin-de-Siècle period in Slovene society, at that time the periphery of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire. In her literary work we analyse poems expressing motives of death.