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The book opens dimensions of justice and redemption. It compares Cankar's works with those of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Hauptmann and the Bible. Compassion and love, especially for the weak, are greater than exigencies of justice. In his last works he offers a vision of redemption for all suffering people during the First World War.

This monograph sheds light on the mother and woman as portrayed in the works of Ivan Cankar. Through the figure of the mother, he reveals also his delicate and subtle relation to weaker individuals in general; the figure of woman in his works reveals his complicated, often two-fold, internally contradictory relation to love and sexuality.