Sample from the audiobook "Velikan in pajac'' (The giant and the clown)

Name: Sample from the audiobook "Velikan in pajac'' (The giant and the clown)
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Suhodolčan, Leopold

Sample from the audiobook "Velikan in pajac'' (The giant and the clown)

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Authors: Suhodolčan, Leopold

Item identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2186

Project URL: https://www.audibook.si/

Demo URL: https://audibook.si/book/xznn

Referenced by: https://audibook.si/book/xznn

Date issued: 2026-05-11

Type: audio, corpus

Size: 161 minutes

Language(s): Slovenian

Description: This entry contains the first part of the audiobook "Velikan in pajac" (The giant and the clown) by author Leopold Suhodolčan (COBISS ID: 272964355, ISBN: 978-961-7194-58-6). Velikan in Pajac (The giant and the clown) is an outstanding novella that received the prestigious Levstik Award and is simply a must-listen. “Pajac felt that, together with Velikan, he had experienced moments he would never forget. Through Velikan, he realized that one can drift through life like a butterfly in a meadow, but one can also do something for someone else; that it is possible to act even in moments when it seems nothing can be done. Leopold Suhodolčan says: ‘With Velikan, I believe in the young person who will freely and humanely decide upon his actions, in a person who will not be a slave to property, money … Perhaps Velikan and Pajac are in fact one and the same person. Maybe I am that person, and many others too, in whom Velikan and Pajac are united: Velikan, who carries within himself faith, passion, the light of our lives … and Pajac, who lives the firm and harsh reality of everyday life. He is the one who carries Velikan, his world, and his great dreams on his living shoulders, because Velikan alone could never truly be Velikan …’” Velikan’s dreamlike world is constantly brought into reality by the deeply practical Pajac. And although all these “not-children, not-yet-adults” are essentially delinquents, you remain with them the entire time, hoping they will somehow find their own place under the sun.