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From the occurrence of fascism in Venezia Giulia and a few years after the end of the 2nd World War the Slovenian narrative prose in Italy was marked by the processing of the collective memory about that period. Writers born before 1945 dedicated a lot of space to the frontier fascism from the beginning of the 20th century in their autobiographicalmemorial narratives. Usually they wrote about it from the perspective of protagonists of Slovenian nationality and through the constant and recurring topics, which formed the core of the collective memory. In their novels and short stories, published between 1991 and 2015, contemporary Slovenian narrative writers, born after 1945, are changing their attitude to historical fascism, known to them only by the mediated memory. They write about this chapter of the past with a lower sense of commitment, so they dedicate to it less space. They replace the previous "big story" by a plurality of "small" and heterogeneous destinies. The protagonists-witnesses are replaced by older secondary characters and the plurality of memory perspectives, which from diff erent viewpoints, even fascist and collaborationist position, shed light on the historical frontier fascism. But this does not mean that the interest of the young and younger writers for the topic of fascism has disappeared. From the distant past it moves to the second half of the 20th century and to the new forms of frontier fascism in Venezia Giulia, particularly in the 70s of the 20th century and at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. In this case the authors, due to the personal experience of dealing with neo-fascism, feel a strong commitment to the memory; therefore they pay to it a lot of attention. In this way they are creating a new core of collective memory of modern fascism. For the role of the witnesses they use mostly young protagonists, but they continue to open up perspective to Italian and even neo-fascist literary figures. All this is especially valid for writers, born in the second half of the 40s, 50s and 60s of the 20th century. Only in the texts of the authors born in 70s and 80s the fascism in its historical and contemporary version almost completely disappears. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]