Body of Letters is not a biography, just as the novel Zmagoslavje podgan, in which Milan Dekleva used the life story of Slavko Grum as a framework, is not a biography. Body of Letters is primarily a novel, or, as the author himself subtitled it, a novel about Alma. Fiction, for which biographical data are only a support, on which Dekleva so successfully weaves his story about Alma Karlin, a traveler, in love with writing, as he made the Grums in Zmagoslavje podgan, and so artfully that the reader can believe that he is actually reading a biography. But this is not a biography, this is a novel in which the author arbitrarily adds, subtracts and adapts both the persons, the scenes, the feelings and the situations in which his heroine finds herself. Alma from Body of Letters is primarily Dekleva's Alma, not the Alma that various historians, ethnologists and literary historians discover. Dekleva's Alma is here to be discovered by the (Slovenian) reader. Just as Slavko Grum was discovered in Zmagoslavje ratgan. Or Grom, if you prefer. The latter was also discovered by a Slovenian literary critic and awarded with the Kresnik. Is something similar expected for Alma? Quite possibly.