Meet the Translator: Michael Biggins presents Newcomers by Lojze Kovačič
Thu, Apr 22
|Online event via Zoom
Considered to be one of Slovenia’s most significant authors of the 20th century, Lojze Kovačič's works often relate to his own life and are constantly concerned with existential topics like life and death, displacement and exile, dream and reality.
Time & Location
Apr 22, 2021, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT
Online event via Zoom
About the Event
Recommended reading: Newcomers 2 >>
Newcomers, the first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovačič family from their home in Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father’s home country of Slovenia. Before leaving their home, the ten-year-old son of the family imagines his father’s country as one of beauty and fairytales, but as they make their way to the land of their exile, the family realizes that any efforts to make this place a home will be in vain. Confronted by misery, hunger, and hostility, the young boy refuses to learn Slovenian and falls silent, his surroundings becoming a social, cultural, and mental abyss.
In this second part of the famous Slovenian writer’s autobiographical novel, the narrator details the dangers and humiliations of his boyhood living in occupied Slovenia in the Second World War.…
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