Selected essays by Matjaž Kmecl

Abstract

The characteristics of Matjaž Kmecl’s essay writing are clearly visible in all his key texts. First, the structural role of the story or the meaning of the example must be emphasized, then the sensibility, the synthesis of subjectivity and objectivity, and vitalism. The third is the conceptual starting point, which works along the following lines: contact with nature and the resulting faith in the natural order of things flourishes and is the condition and goal of the good. This view is simple and effective when it rejects hypocrisy, reveals and overcomes the hyperbolized sense of smallness of a nation of some two million people, evokes individuality, overcomes loneliness and self-destructiveness. Kmecl notes the consequences of fatigue and overload when he places literary-historical explanations in temporal and spatial coordinates or in the case of accurate reflections of individuals and events. If I add to this Kmecl’s understanding and consideration of social and socio-historical parallels, it is possible to present a round picture of the mental foundations on which individual texts are created.