Jezik in slovstvo

Kodni sistem
Slovenska knjizevnost
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Urednistvo <-> bralci

Jezik in slovstvo
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Zlata Sundalic'

O legendi v neprvotnem kontekstu
(v Cankarjevem besedilu Hoja v solo)
About the Legend in the Non-original Context
(In Cankar's Text Going to School)

Slovenski sinopsis
English synopsis
English summary

Slovenski sinopsis

V Cankarjevi crtici Hoja v solo odkriva razprava elemente, kitl so znacilni za ljudsko legendo. V liku matere, ki je prikazana kot potrpezljiva in krepostna oseba, ki resuje sina iz vseh kriznih stanj, celo po svoji smrti, odkrije motiv matere svetnice. Spomin na hojo v mesto, v solo in slovo od matere pa primerja s krizevim potom. V nasprotju s tema dvema pa je motiv razbojnika in njegove spreobrnitve veliko bolj zabrisan in nejasen. Kljub tem pridrzkom pa v Cankarjevem besedilu kot v neprvotnem kontekstu lahko odkrijemo elemente legende, le v spremenjeni in deloma zelo zabrisani obliki.

English synopsis

In Cankar's sketch Going to School the study uncovers elements characteristic of a folk legend. In the image of the mother, who is depicted as a patient and virtuous person that seves her son from all the critical states, even after her death, the author discovers the motive of the mother-saint. He thus compares his going into town, to school and the farewell taken from his mother with the Way of the Cross. In contrast to these two, the motive of the robber and his conversion is much more unclear and obliterated. Despite these drawbacks in Cankar's text, as in the non-original context, the elements of a legend can be detected, but in a changed and partly very much effaced form.

English summary

In Cankar's sketch Going to School (1910) there are certain elements that are characteristic of the simple form of the legend. There is also a difference between the original and non-original simple form, between its original and non-original context as well as between the simple and complicated literary form.

The original simple form can exist only in an original context (an archaic society, agrafian time). Thus in the folk song The Holy Family and a Robber the following characteristics of a legend can be found: the main character, Marija, belongs to this world, but she is lifted above the average inhabitants of the Earth with special qualities of her characteristics: there follows a process in which she becomes a saint: Marija (servus Dei) has heroic virtues and can perform miracles (she heals a child and converts a criminal), with witnesses to vouch for it, and the Church sanctifies her; after beatification there ensues canonization.

In Cankar's Going to School the legend emerges in a specific way. Here, too, the central character in the mother, the active virtues of whom are because of their qualities likewise immitable. However, the person who immitates them (the son-narrator) is not consistent in doing so. That is why with Cankar the active virtue is not represented in a miracle (as in an original simple form), but in the record mode: the mother's optimism is in fact the record with regard to the son's pessimism and incredulity. A legend can therefore appear also in a non-original context, only that it assumes a changed and slightly effaced form.