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The Last Temptation of Sergij 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 was bad in the former common state of Yugoslavia, they threw numerous obstacles, traps and detours on this path, which instead of the expected promised land led to a swamp of bizarre, grotesque, perverted reality.
The main protagonist of the novel, a young journalist Jošt Rowenski, wants to write a portrait of Sergije Tramar, an intellectual in his mature years, who in the seventies and eighties was one of the pillars of the Slovenian opposition and one of those intellectuals who co-created the spiritual and intellectual atmosphere from which the social changes that marked the break with the common state and the one-party communist system were driven. However, contrary to expectations, the story of Sergiu does not develop as a story about a heroic actor of some origin, but becomes a story about the miserable destruction of ideals.
Jani Virk (1962, Ljubljana) graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana with a degree in German and comparative literature. In 2014 he received his doctorate on the topic of the Middle Ages in contemporary literature and film. He is the author of seven novels, four books of short stories, a book of poems, a book of essays and a young adult novel, and is also a translator (among the translated authors are Maister Eckhart, G. Roth, E. Canetti, H. C. Artman, T. Bernhard, J. W. Goethe, H. Böll).
He has been active in journalism for more than three decades, among others. he was the editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper and the acting director of Television Slovenia, where he has been the editor of the Feature Program for the last four years. He is also the screenwriter or director of numerous documentaries and travelogues.
He has received several domestic and international awards for his literature, including the Prešeren Fund Award. One of his stories was made into a film called The Village Teacher in the early 1990s, and his books have been translated into Austria, Mexico, Serbia, Poland, and Croatia, and published in magazines in many other languages.