"I Saw Her That Night is a tragic love story set amid the atrocities of World War II in Slovenia" --
Drago Jančar Book order
April 13, 1948
Drago Jančar's literary explorations delve into the tension between the individual and their societal environment, often drawing on historical themes and presenting them allegorically. His prose, influenced by modernist and postmodernist techniques, examines the tragic collisions between human existence and the chaos of the objective world. In his dramatic works, he typically portrays an individual's downfall when pitted against an unfeeling system, and his essays tackle the existential and political dilemmas faced by intellectuals. As the most translated contemporary Slovenian author, Jančar is lauded for his distinctive ability to capture the complexities of the human condition.
- 2016
- 2014
A diary recounting four decades' worth of sexual exploits, the memoir of a mental institution attendant, and a familiar-looking bicycle dredged out of a river--the discovery of these artifacts sends an archivist on an obsessive quest to discover their owners' identities and fates. Shifting between Slovenia's postcommunist present and its wartime occupation by the Axis, "The Tree with No Name" might well be Drago Jancar's masterpiece: a compelling and universally significant story of an individual confronting the constraints on truth set by his--and every--culture.
