Elvis's Room is the setting for the life of a generation that grew up in the 1980s. Although it may seem like a short time ago, it is a past that we can no longer capture, let alone experience. But we can relive it, especially those of us who, as children and adolescents, followed the social conditions under socialism with the transition from one country to another and from one system to another. In the novel, Pregelj touches on these social and political themes between the lines, in the story of the boy Jan and his friends, especially Elvis. The 1980s were the years when changes were announced. Back then, it didn't matter what nationality you were. Jan's friend Elvis is Macedonian and, as his father says, they are Turks. But that doesn't matter. What is important is that there is peace in the country. That there is understanding between all people, regardless of any differences. You have to go to neighboring Austria for bananas and coffee and to Italy for jeans, but the children don't really care about that. They only care about toys that come from across the border, from the Western world. This life is interrupted by war. Immediately after serving his military service, Jan finds himself among the Territorials. All traces of his friends are lost. When Jan looks for them again, no one is the same as they once were. The country is no longer the same and is no longer what it once was. In Elvis' room, there are hidden stories that have become one. These are stories that are like a ghost of a bygone era, characterized by happiness and a peaceful life from day to day, something that no longer exists in the time we live in now. And this 'now' is actually just a little later. It's as if we were living in a history accelerator.