»He was wont to eat very little and to drink much more.«

Ivan Cankar, Slovene Bohemian - A Contribution to the History of Bohemianism in Slovenia

Abstract

The article presents what the author believes to be the far too hushed-up everyday life of Ivan Cankar, one of the most important Slovene writers. To begin with, the author makes a firm statement that Cankar was a bohemian, since his contemporaries called him that, and he himself even compared his life in Vienna to the life of the »bohemians of Paris«. Since bohemianism as a way of life was a characteristic feature of society throughout Europe in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century, the author gives a general picture of the phenomenon in the first part of his article, followed by a look at how Cankar fitted into this frame.