When there is no power at all

The reader gets an insight into the writer's existence amidst the cultural politics of Tito's regime, when it was somehow the case that "things live in many ways, in many forms and, to a sharp and logical mind, are even in complete contradiction". The book is a true literary wandering through various places, such as (were) Mesing, Pod Skalco, Rio, Šumi, Union and Pri Mraku, where we socialise with, for example, the author and writer Petar Božič, the poet Gregor Strniša, the literary historian and philosopher Taras Kermauner, the writers Vitomil Zupan and Marjan Rožanc, and anyone who gets into the colourful and often heated debate society. As Božič writes somewhere, buffets and cafes were "truly the centre of life, where thoughts and words were articulated and where there was no political clichéd Latvianism". However, the author eventually realizes that the titular authority is not as reliable and omnipresent as it seems, and sometimes it simply does not exist.

"But when it was "mus", it turned out that it wasn't a hundred, but an old postcard."Hardcover with dust jacket, 14.5 x 21.0 cm, 150 pages.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Peter Božič (1932–2009) was a writer and one of the main representatives of absurdist drama in Slovenia. During World War II, he and his family were relocated to Germany, where he witnessed the bombing of Dresden. After the war, he attended high school in Maribor, but in 1951 he was convicted of anti-state activities for collaborating with the authors of the illegal magazine Iskanje. He later studied forestry in Ljubljana, then Slavic studies, but did not complete any of his studies. He supported himself as a laboratory assistant, librarian and teacher, and spent most of his time writing as a freelance writer, journalist and editor of the magazines Mentor and Maska. As an engaged intellectual, he also became politically active after independence. His best-known works include the novels Izven, Jaz sem ubi Anito, Očeta Vincenca smrt and the plays Križišče, Obisk stare mame, Panika, Španska kraljica and Šumi. For his work, he received the Župančič Award in 1970, the Prešeren Fund Award in 1972, and the state decoration of the Silver Medal of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia in 2002.