Miran Štuhec, Subjekt v kratki prozi Andreja Blatnika

In Blatnik's collections Šopki za Adama venijo (Bouquets for Adam are wilting), Biografije brezimenih (Biographies of those with no name), Menjave kož (Changing skins) and Zakon želje (The law of desire), the subject develops from the thinking subject, to the apathetic subject in Menjave kož (Changing skins), to the subject of talking in his last collection. The present paper places Blatnik's postmodern subject into postmodern culture, which is marked by the simultaneous existence of a greater number of truths. Lately, there have been several expressions marking the postmodern subject; the development of the concept of the subject itself can be traced from the Ancient Greek philosophers on. The alternative psychology of the 20th century introduced new interpretations of the concept of the subject. Mead's commentary of momentary events, Foucault's auto-reflexive subject, Derrida's paranoid construction and Rorty's liberal man of irony – they all constitute the postmodern subject. We can also use the same term, although with a few reservations, for Blatnik's subject, which is looking for the word to express the truth and trying to find his way in the fleeting, chaotic postmodern period.