At the Creation of the World is a story about a world that does not yet exist and is "destined" to come into being before our very eyes.About the great story of life, which is great precisely because it unfolds before the eyes of an individual and is therefore unique and unrepeatable. It is true that it happened in the city of M., but it could just as well have happened anywhere else in our country. For the eyes are finally given the opportunity to see what things have in common.
Such things were happening in our country at that time, not long after the Second World War, but they could only be experienced and described in such a way and with such narrative power by someone who, alongside real and visible events, also revealed their hidden side. Interwoven them with his own imagination, which tried to breathe into the world that lost beauty again, the silence that originally reached from heaven to earth. Because seeing a lot can mean seeing a little too much. With all the beauty and goodwill, also overlooking betrayals and hidden intentions, passions.
Yet it is indescribably difficult to imagine that this imperfect world, which has become ours because we have come to know it as we have, and interpreted it as we knew and knew, will one day be no more for us. Just as it is finally difficult to accept that we have turned the last page of Jančar's perhaps most moving, but certainly very personal novel, which enchants us with the author's characteristic suggestive narrative delivery and swirling style, with which he slowly but steadily draws us into the center of the mysteries of people and the world, as much as we are given to know during our lifetime.
"How Jančar manages to conjure up personal and social delirium, to create an atmosphere of menace and horror from seemingly harmless details, is a testament to his great artistic ability." - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Hardcover with dust jacket, 14 x 21 cm, 268 pages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Drago Jančar (1948), a writer, playwright and essayist, is considered one of the most established and translated contemporary Slovenian authors. He first worked as an editor, proofreader and proofreader at the Večer newspaper, and from 1981 until his retirement in 2016, he was the editor and secretary at the Slovenska matica. He has received many of the most prominent Slovenian and international awards for his work - in 2020 he received the Austrian State Prize for European Literature for his work, and in September 2021 he also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Maribor.
