Pripovedna empatija v izbranih zbirkah sodobne slovenske kratke pripovedi

This article examines narrative empathy by understanding narrative emotions as a special aspect of narrative form in selected collections of contemporary Slovenian short stories: Polona Glavan’s Gverilci (Guerrillas, 2004), Andrej Blatnik’s Zakon želje (The Law of Desire, 2000), and Dušan Čater’s Džehenem (Gehenna, 2010). The analysis of the presence of narrative emotions in the short stories has shown that the dialogues between the subjects or characters only seem superficial, and that, at the level of communication, they are mainly processes of minimalist ellipticity.