Abstract
The topic of the article is the representation of reformers in the literary work of the Slovenian realist writer Ivan Tavčar (1851-1923). In our interpretation we focus on the triptych of three literary works, written in eighties, in which he describes the period of recatolisation of the Slovene society.
He depicted the images of reformists in the short story Vita vitae meae (1883), in the story about Amandus as part of the longer }}framed story(( V Zali (In the Zala Valley, Ljubljanski zvon, 1884) and in the novel Grajski pisar (The Castle Scribe, 1889). Tavčar interweaved the texts with the historical memory of the specific area of his youth: Poljanska Valley and the town Škofja Loka.
The reformists and also the catholic priests are presented with stereotypical features: they are passionate believers but also intolerant people without the sense for the humanity and for the Other. The narrator underlines the story of the romantic love between a man and a woman with different religious beliefs.