Selling more than 20,000 copies in a new Slovenian edition

(Michael Biggins — August, 2004)

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BOUT THE
A
UTHOR
V
LADIMIR
B
ARTOL
(1903–1967) was one of Yugoslavia’s leading intellects and the author of plays,
short stories and theater reviews. After studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, Bartol spent much
of his life in Trieste. He died in Ljubljana with most of his work out of print and virtually
unknown among his countrymen.

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BOUT THE
T
RANSLATOR
M
ICHAEL
B
IGGINS
has translated works by a number of Slovenia’s leading contemporary writers.
He currently curates the library collections for Russian and East European studies and teaches
in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, both at the University of Washington
in Seattle.

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Document Outline

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Epigraph
• Publisher’s Note
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven
• Chapter Eight
• Chapter Nine
• Chapter Ten
• Chapter Eleven
• Chapter Twelve
• Chapter Thirteen
• Chapter Fourteen
• Chapter Fifteen
• Chapter Sixteen
• Chapter Seventeen
• Chapter Eighteen
• Chapter Nineteen
• Chapter Twenty
• Chapter Twenty-one
• Afterword
• About the Author
• About the Translator