A01=Drago Jancar
Author_Drago Jancar
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Product details
- ISBN 9781628970548
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 21mm
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 2014
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication City/Country: Normal, US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Jancar, today the leading writer of contemporary Slovenian prose, was born in Maribor, Slovenia. A former president of the Slovenian PEN Center and a winner of the Preseren Foundation Award, he is currently an editor of the New Review. Michael Biggins's translations of works by Slovene authors such as Drago Jančar, Tomaž Šalamun, Vladimir Bartol and Lojze Kovačič have been published by Harcourt, Archipelago and Dalkey Archive, among others. In 2015 he was awarded the Lavrin Diploma of the Society of Slovene Literary Translators for distinguished contributions to the advancement of Slovene literature in English. He lives in Seattle.
