18-438: Smole is a Slovenian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dominik Smole (1929-1992), Slovenian writer and playwright Janko Smole (1921–2010), Slovenian politician Jože Smole (born 1965), Yugoslav Olympic cyclist See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Smole Smolej [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
36-411: A Small Town to a Big Town), Roman Gize Tikveš (Giza Tikveš's Novel), Večerni letoviščarski sprehod brez dogodka (An Uneventful Holiday Evening Strol). His main novel Črni dnevi in beli dan (Black Days and a White Day) (1958) was also created as a cycle of short stories; as a whole represents one of the most interesting Slovene literary works of its time. The novel also served as the literary basis for
54-461: A manual worker, in protest against the regime repression of free speech, but later dedicated to writing. During this time he maintained strong contacts with the dissident poet and thinker Edvard Kocbek , who strongly encouraged him to pursue his literary career. Smole spent most of his life in Ljubljana, working as a free-lance writer most of his life. He died in Ljubljana in 1992 and is buried in
72-515: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Dominik Smole Dominik Smole (24 August 1929 – 29 July 1992) was a Slovenian writer and playwright. Smole was born in Ljubljana in what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . He attended school in Ljubljana and after the end of World War II he was employed as a broadcaster at Radio Primorska (Radio Slovenian Litoral), which
90-561: Is the literature written in Slovene . It spans across all literary genres with historically the Slovene historical fiction as the most widespread Slovene fiction genre. The Romantic 19th-century epic poetry written by the leading name of the Slovene literary canon , France Prešeren , inspired virtually all subsequent Slovene literature. Literature played an important role in the development and preservation of Slovene identity because
108-440: The surname Smole . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smole&oldid=1238641632 " Categories : Surnames Slovene-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
126-780: The Žale cemetery. Smole was not a prolific writer: he did not create a large oeuvre, but his works are nevertheless regarded as the peak of modern Slovene literature . He was a crucial collaborator of the literary and cultural magazines that struggled to open a space for public debate in Communist Slovenia in the 1960s. The central part of Smole's opus was published in the literary journal Beseda between 1951 and 1957, mostly as short stories with an urban theme, psychological and moral portraits of people and relationships, moral uncertainties and confusions of contemporary man. The stories include Mala novoletna zgodba (A Short New Year Story), Pismo iz mesteca v mesto (A Letter from
144-557: The Slovene nation did not have its own state until 1991 after the Republic of Slovenia emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia . Poetry , narrative prose , drama , essay , and criticism kept the Slovene language and culture alive, allowing—in the words of Anton Slodnjak—the Slovenes to become a real nation, particularly in the absence of "masculine" attributes such as political power and authority . There are accounts that cite
162-456: The entire New Testament , Jurij Dalmatin translated the entire Bible into Slovene from c. 1569 until 1578 and published it in 1583. In the second half of the 16th century, Slovene became known to other European languages with the multilingual dictionary, compiled by Hieronymus Megiser . Since then each new generation of Slovene writers has contributed to the growing corpus of texts in Slovene. Particularly, Adam Bohorič 's Arcticae horulae ,
180-527: The existence of an oral literary tradition that preceded the Slovene written literature. This was mostly composed of folk songs and also prose, which included tales of myths , fairy tales , and narrations . The earliest documents written in Old Slovene are the Freising manuscripts ( Brižinski spomeniki ), dated between 972 and 1022, found in 1803 in Freising , Germany. This book was written for
198-526: The film Ples v dežju (Dance in the Rain), directed by Boštjan Hladnik in 1961. His main plays include Potovanje v Koromandijo (Travels to Neverland), Igre in igrice (Plays and Games), and Zlata čeveljčka (Little Golden Shoes). One of his most important plays is Krst pri Savici (adaptation of Prešeren's epic-lyric poem The Baptism on the Savica ), a paraphrase of France Prešeren 's major work with
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#1732790375245216-444: The first Slovene grammar, and Sebastjan Krelj 's Postilla Slovenska , became the bases of the development of Slovene literature. This period encompasses 1899–1918. Intimism ( Slovene : intimizem ) was a poetic movement, the main themes of which were love, disappointment and suffering and the projection of poet's inner feelings onto nature. Its beginner is Ivan Minatti , who was followed by Lojze Krakar . The climax of Intimism
234-640: The purpose of spreading Christianity to the Alpine Slavs and contained terms concerned with the institutions of authority such as oblast (authority), gospod (lord), and rota (oath). The first printed books in Slovene were Catechismus and Abecedarium , written by the Protestant reformer Primož Trubar in 1550 and printed in Schwäbisch Hall . Based on the work by Trubar, who from 1555 until 1577 translated into Slovene and published
252-655: The same title, in which he used the setting of the Christianisation of the predecessors of the Slovenes in the 8th century to deliver a clear yet subtle metaphor of the political conditions in Slovenia after the Second World War. He employed the same scheme in his most important poetic play, Antigona ( Antigone ), written in 1961. The play is conceived as a remake of Sophocles ' famous play, where everything revolves around an Antigone who never appears on
270-622: The so-called Critical generation , a group of talented young intellectuals, mostly from Ljubljana, who tried to challenge the rigid and repressive cultural policies of the Titoist regime in Slovenia . After the demise of the group, which came with the imprisonment of Jože Pučnik and the suppression of the Stage '57 and the group's two literary magazines, Revija 57 and Perspektive , Smole retreated into private life. For some years he worked as
288-512: The stage. Smole's Antigone thus uses the reference to one of the greatest myths of Ancient Greek literature as a clear allusion to the contemporary Slovene political and social situation and its main concealed secret, the summary killings of 12,000 Slovenian Home Guard members in May and June 1945, perpetrated by the Communist authorities . The play has also been translated into English. Smole
306-466: Was a sharp thinker who lucidly analyzed his surroundings. Already during his lifetime, he was acclaimed for his refined expression and frequently referred to as a master of style. His works echo the existentialist issues of contemporary modern literature. His literature can be read both as a critical account of totalitarian reality, as well as a global metaphor on the tragic essence of the human condition . Slovene literature Slovene literature
324-842: Was set up in Ajdovščina by the Yugoslav occupation authorities of the Julian March . He later returned to Ljubljana and worked as stage director at the Slovene Youth Theatre and later at the Drama Theatre . There he met Jože Javoršek , Žarko Petan and Bojan Štih who influenced him in searching for new modes of expression in theatre. In the mid 1950s we worked at Stage '57 , an alternative theatre set up by young Slovenian artists and authors, which introduced more modern approaches to Slovene theatre. Smole belonged to
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