The Last Temptation of Sergij
Sergijevo smešnjava is a transitional novel set in the period after Slovenia gained independence in 1991. Contrary to the expectations of the intellectual elite and ordinary citizens, the birth pangs of the emerging state were so intense and unpredictable that, instead of a quick path to an orderly society and the elimination of everything that […]
Madonin nakit
Blašković creates four voices that intertwine into a veritable quartet, singing about the agony of the turn of the millennium as they try to reconcile the iconography of the past with the present. Set in a prison infirmary during the NATO bombing of Serbia, Madonna’s Jewelry is a postmodern manual of political incorrectness. Sometimes profound […]
Bunar,Vodnjak
At the heart of the story is a well as a metaphor for the deep and hidden, a metaphor for digging into one’s own soul to find a small spring in which one can – as in a mirror – see one’s own victories (and the victories of others), as well as things one might […]
Taborišče padlih žensk
The novel, in Orwellian style, depicts a cruel and grotesque image of the lives of people behind the Iron Curtain: the lives of Bratislava prostitutes who are sent by the communist authorities to the Nováke labor camp, a former Jewish concentration camp, for re-education. The novel, which was created based on extensive documentary material, is […]
Posmehljivo poželenje
When Gregor Gradnik goes on a one-year exchange as a creative writing teacher from Central European, recently communist Slovenia to America, his life is turned upside down. Not only because of the harsh American reality he faces in the hot carnival nights of New Orleans, not only because of the eccentricity of Professor Blaumann, who […]