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V Cankarjevih delih iz dunajskega obdobja, ki govorijo o domovini in o pisateljevem odnosu do nje, ugotavljamo pisateljevo olajšanje, ker na tujem lahko neodvisno in neobremenjeno ustvarja moderno literaturo po evropskem vzoru, po drugi strani pa nekakšen pasiven protest proti domovini, ki ga ni priznala, in njeni dvojni morali.
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We find in Cankar’s works of the Vienna period that are about homeland and the writer’s relation toward it, his relief because abroad he was able to create modern literature independently and unburdened by the European model, and on the other hand, a passive protest against the homeland that did not recognize him, and its double morality. The very uneasiness of foreign land, sensation of isolation, superfluity, eradication, estrangement, self-denial, suffering and nostalgia influenced Cankar to create in his Vienna years the majority of his best works. Through strongly psychologically marked third-person fables, novels and dramas he frequently reveals his own estrangement in the world from which he cannot escape, and tries to overcome his weakness with spirituality. The repeating of St. Florian motive in his Vienna years in which Cankar appears as an exiled artist abroad who is longing for his homeland despite his awareness of its double morality, witness on the writer’s distress because of the sensation of not being accepted. Frequent cynicism found in his moral critique is hiding his wounded idealism. Because Cankar could not assert himself in society, he often resorted to defiance, denial and bitter tearing of himself. Cankar’s personal bitterness did not change into hatred of human beings and human civilisation; it reveals the writers’ deep human hurting. Numerous Cankar’s stories and dramas of the Vienna years thus bring with autobiographic elements the figure of an idealistic educated person or artist who does not want to conform to officially recognised patterns and ideals but wants his life arranged by his own ideals. Nevertheless, abroad Cankar frequently wrote that he did not hate the homeland he was accusing of rejecting and blemishing him, but that he loved it.
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