![]() In 1896, he enrolled at the University of Vienna, where he studied engineering, but later switched to Slavic philology. Under Aškerc's influence, Cankar rejected the sentimental post-Romantic poetry and embraced literary realism and national liberalism. In 1893, he discovered the epic poetry of Anton Aškerc, which had a huge influence on the development of his style and ideals. ![]() ĭuring this period, he started writing literature, mostly poetry, under the influence of Romantic and post-Romantic poets such as France Prešeren, Heinrich Heine, Simon Jenko and Simon Gregorčič. ![]() After finishing grammar school in his hometown, he studied at the Technical High School ( Realka) in Ljubljana (1888–1896). The figure of a self-sacrificing and submissively repressive mother would later become one of the most recognizable features of Cankar's prose. He was raised by his mother, Neža Cankar née Pivk, with whom he established a close, but ambivalent relationship. He was one of the many children of a poor artisan who emigrated to Bosnia shortly after Ivan's birth. ![]() Ivan Cankar was born in the Carniolan town of Vrhnika near Ljubljana. ![]()
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