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Three decades of modern post-revolutionary development created sociocultural prerequisites for qualitative changes within literature and contributed to the transformation of its role in public life. After the dissolving of the SFRY in Slovenia, various sociocultural, ideological, and aesthetic tendencies coexisted, intersected, and conflicted. They were the result of the antagonisms of their time, first of all, the epoch-making death of socialism and the accession of „liberal capitalism“. The great historical event symbolizing this „end“ and at the same time proclaiming the reunion of the „old“ and „new“ Europe was the fall down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. After independence a paradoxical situation arose in Slovenia: the newly-minted state ceased to consider printed art as an instrument of national self-identification and redirected this obligation to a private publisher with his commercial interest.