Powieść Dominika Smolego i jej filmowa transkrypcja
Dominik Smole’s novel and its film transcription

Author(s): Zdzisław Darasz
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Slovene literature and film are connected through numerous and creative links (in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia over 40 per cent of films were made according to scripts based on the works of native literature). However, never before or afterwards had the consequences of screen adaptation of fiction proved as momentous for the national culture as in the case of Dominik Smole’s novel Black Days and a White Day (1958), and the book’s adaptation, Boštjan Hladnik’s film Dancing in the Rain (1961). Both works played a very important role in promoting Slovene culture of modernist aesthetics – autonomous and noninstrumental, carrying out bold formal experiments, breaking with tradition and mimetic expression of reality. Both of them fulfilled the task properly, despite facing sharp criticism from conservative audience, especially viewers. Having completed their cultural mission, they ended up in a repository of culture texts in order to await the interest of new generations of readers viewers – rather professional than mass.

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