Podobe v kratki pripovedi Ivanke Hergold

Research on three images – an old woman, an old man, and a dog – in three collections of Ivanka Hergold’s short stories – Pasja radost ali karkoli (Dog’s Joy or Whatever), Vse imaš od mene (You’ve Got Everything from Me), and Pojoči oreh (The Singing Walnut) – has revealed many thematic and narrative innovations. Among the themes, the suggestive images of a grandmother, grandfather, mother, and dog near death are the most effec­tive, and at the narrative level it is fairytale or fantastic logic, scripting, and lyricism. Lyricization as a dominant digressive process in the six narratives discussed – »Pravljica o dečku in dedku« (The Tale of the Boy and the Grandfather), »Prazna hiša« (The Empty House), »Pes Alfonz« (Alphonse the Dog), »Ko pride ura« (When the Hour Comes), »Tretji sin« (The Third Son), and »Pojoči oreh« (The Singing Walnut)—is characterized by rhythmi­cization and condensation of descriptions into polysemous aesthetic images. Among the images of the old woman, the old man, and the dog, the story »Pojoči oreh« (The Singing Walnut) from the collection of the same name stands out for its innovative suggestiveness, in which the image of the grandfather merges into the (sound) image of the singing walnut. The empathy and sublimity of the images once again proves the quality of the author’s oeuvre, which calls out for appropriate canonization.