Literary Criticism Contained in the Diary of a Writer: A Document or Fiction?
Keywords:
literary criticism, diary, fictionality, story, document, Vladimir Bartol, Slavko Grum, Srečko KosovelAbstract
What happens to literary criticism if it appears in an unusual place – in the diary of a man of letters? With this question in mind, this article analyses sections of three diaries from the interwar period written by Vladimir Bartol, Slavko Grum, and Srečko Kosovel. The conclusion is that the diary has its own narrative logic that is stronger than the objectivist principles of literary criticism. The diary writer, sensitive to the pressure of the diary genre, becomes a fictional hero and his critical remarks tend to become a story.References
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