Sample of the e-book of "Potovanje preblizu" (A journey too close)

  Authors

Flisar, Evald

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2267

 Project URL

https://beletrinadigital.si/

 Demo URL

https://beletrinadigital.si/e-knjiga/potovanje-preblizu

 Referenced by

https://beletrinadigital.si/e-knjiga/potovanje-preblizu

 Date issued

2026-07-20

 Type

corpus, text

 Size

89 pages

 Language(s)

Slovenian

 Description

This entry includes the first part of the e-book "Potovanje preblizu" (A journey too close) by author Evald Flisar (COBISS.SI-ID 269255171, ISBN 978-961-7279-02-3). If you were captivated by The sorcerer’s apprentice, described as “the most widely read Slovenian novel of the twentieth century”, then A journey too close is almost essential reading. Together with an author whose work has appeared in 253 translations across 42 languages and whose plays have been staged on every continent, you will travel by car to London, where he lived for nearly twenty years. During the journey, one of hundreds the author made in the final decade of the previous century, the driver speaks to you, his imaginary passengers, about the problems we have created through our stupidity and selfishness. He reflects on the approaching end of civilisation, our misunderstanding of much of what we consider reality, and more than a hundred other forces whose victims we have become. The author is travelling to London because he is convinced that, when he moved back to Slovenia, he left several belongings in the attic of his former home. At the time, they seemed unimportant, but he now believes they might help him come closer to himself, to his true nature and to his destiny. Yet there is also the danger that he may come too close, and that the life he sees anew will appear so different that he will be unable to accept it. A similar feeling may await you, his fellow travellers.

 Publisher

KUD Sodobnost International

 Acknowledgement

Slovenian Book Agency JR1-RDZ-2025 "Development of Digital Publishing"

 Subject(s)

e-book novel

 Collection(s)

CLARIN.SI digital editions

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