Bøger af Drago Jančar

The Galley Slave is a tour de force of historical fiction centered on the misadventures of an Everyman of indeterminate origins named Johan Ot, who is part picaresque anti-hero, part Josef K."Jancar’s 1978 novel (part of Dalkey Archive’s Slovenian Literature series) is a vivid, dense, atmospheric tale set in the brutal medieval age of the Inquisition. A hapless stranger in a nameless land flees before the “plague commissars,” who put up roadblocks and interrogate travelers, compel him to take refuge in a town where it seems that his every move is being watched. The land is overrun by forces of suspicion and terror, and the stranger, Johan Ot, is likely hiding some darkness from his own past, revealed in nocturnal ravings that alert the neighbors to a guilty conscience—or an inner demon.'Darkness and flames and blood everywhere, with people always concealing evil intentions,' Jancar narrates in the foreboding voice of the omniscient moral police. The net of the Inquisition tightens: Ot is captured, interrogated, and brutally tortured until he confesses to having 'some sort of devil... in me.' Excommunicated from the Church, he vanishes, or is perhaps spirited away by an underground apostate brotherhood, resurfacing amid renegades plotting to bring down the 'snot-nosed little emperor,' Leopold. Yet the doomed Ot is again captured and sentenced to become a galley slave 'for the rest of his natural life.' Jancar depicts the insidious gloom of this society with the intimacy of someone acutely aware of how the repressive tentacles of an authoritarian regime can rob individuals of their destiny." —Publishers Weekly

”Hun er lidt ... ikke blot usædvanlig, men hvad skal jeg kalde det – excentrisk. Jeg har hørt, at hun har en alligator som kæledyr. At hun går tur med den. Forstår du? Kort sagt,” sagde major Ilić og så mig i øjnene, ”nu ved du det hele.”Den serbiske kavaleriofficer Stevan bliver af sin overordnede pålagt at undervise en ung, egenrådig godsejerfrue, Veronika, i ridning. En opgave han dårligt kan tage alvorligt i en tid, hvor Europa smuldrer.Slovenske Drago Jančars kalejdoskopiske roman begynder som en romantisk historie i de urolige år op til Anden Verdenskrig og folder sig ud til et mangefacetteret portræt af en kvinde – og en understregning af, at krig ingen vindere har. En litterær roman om erindringens dybe smerte, skrevet med udgangspunkt i virkelige begivenheder.Jeg så hende i nat udkom første gang i 2010 og blev tildelt den slovenske Kresnik Pris som årets bedste roman og i 2020 som årtiets bedste roman, samt ikke mindst den franske Prix du meilleur livre étranger (2014). Romanen er ganske imponerende oversat til mere end 20 sprog.

This novel is a love story in time of war, about a few years in the life and mysterious disappearance of Veronika Zarnik, a young bourgeois woman from Ljubljana, sucked into the whirlwind of a turbulent period in history, Slovenia before and during World War II. We follow her story from the perspective of five different characters.

The Galley Slave is a tour de force of historical fiction centered on the misadventures of an Everyman of indeterminate origins named Johan Ot, who is part picaresque anti-hero, part Josef K.

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