Literature in Slovenia

In my latest copy of the London Review of Books I noticed there is advertised a 4 - day Slovenia Tour for Book Lovers. Discover Slovenia through Literature featuring Local Writers in English Translation - information at info@slovenia-explorer.com

Just wondering if anyone in this group knew anything about this.

Just noticed I have a book on my shelves La femme gauchère by Peter Handke Is it worth reading; does anybody know?

Haven't read anything by Handke

How about footke?

An acquaintance, now dead, who wrote a wonderful sort of intro to Arjun and the Good Snake, a colleague of Slavoj Žižek, Janez Justin, now dead, a man who spoke about 10 or 12 languages, met Beckett a couple times, recommended Handke to me. But as is the way of these things, I was forced to choose from what was available and got something I found not just boring but stylistically vacuous. So he comes highly recommended, but apparently it has to be the right books, probably early novels.

A Slovenia tour for book lovers. I'd have to see who sponsored it. The clique of translated writers in Ljubljana is a tight-assed bunch in my experience. The master, Vitomil Zupan, who was a madman, a born anarchist, and who wrote the best Slovene novel I know of, Minuet for Guitar, is long dead by now.

Them what wants a book lovers tour best visit me and we then take the Rilke walk and visit Joyceanic Trieste, before visiting Piran, where Joyce drank away his eye-sight.

Slovene writers tended to die of alcohol or drug related problems. Several poets in the early 1920s died very young. One very interesting artist, who also wrote I think, Hinko Smrekar, has little about him in English.

Zupan's book is really good---it's a WWII novel. The only other Slovenians I've read are Borut Praper and the poet Tomaz Salamun and I think Salamun lived a good part of his life in the United States.

A Rick book tour. Imagine that

We were going to meet in Prague in 2018, remember that? The Rick book tour is still possible. We could make it an LT festival.

Summertime. I can get permission to camp on the beach, a lightly forested, grassy area, we can have music and readings, discussions at night...

I'll read my paper The Territory of Slovene Literature, which is about Rilke, Joyce,
and Musil...

I would like to go to Trieste again. Next year perhaps I will be in N Italy.

I'm 25 mintues from the train station, 17 minutes from the gas chambers.

(trains still running--crematoria destroyed, just frame of buildings left standing)

ever the writer