On the occasion of Slovenian Public Library Day (November 20), we invite you to a conversation with one of the most distinguished Slovenian writers, Drago Jančar.
About his latest novel At the creation of the world will talk to him/her Kristian Kozelj. The event will be in Study reading rooms.
PUBLISHER ABOUT THE BOOK
At the Creation of the World is a story about a world that does not yet exist and is "destined" to come into being before our eyes. About the great story of life, which is great precisely because it unfolds before the eyes of an individual and is therefore unique and unrepeatable. It is true that it happened in the city of M., but it could have happened anywhere else in our country. Namely, the eyes are finally given the opportunity to see what things have in common. Such things were happening in our country at that time, not long after the Second World War, but they could only have been experienced and described in exactly such a way and with such narrative power by someone who, alongside real and visible events, also revealed their hidden side. Interwoven them with their own imagination, which tried to breathe into the world that lost beauty again, the silence that in the beginning reached all the way from heaven to earth. Because seeing a lot can mean seeing a little too much. With all the beauty and goodwill, it is also difficult to overlook betrayals and hidden intentions, passions. And yet it is indescribably difficult to imagine that this imperfect world, which became ours because we came to know it as we did, and interpreted it as we knew and knew how, will one day be no more for us. Just as it is finally difficult to accept that we have turned the last page of Jančar's perhaps most moving, but certainly very personal novel, which enchants us with the author's characteristic suggestive narrative delivery and swirling style, with which he slowly but steadily draws us into the center of the mysteries of people and the world, as much as we are given to know during our lifetime.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Drago Jančar (1948), a writer, playwright and essayist, is considered one of the most established and translated contemporary Slovenian authors. He first worked as an editor, proofreader and proofreader at the newspaper Večer, and from 1981 until his retirement in 2016, he was the editor and secretary at the Slovenska matica. He has received many of the most prominent Slovenian and international awards for his work – in 2020 he received the Austrian State Prize for European Literature for his work, and in September 2021 he also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Maribor.