Gospod Pepi ali Zgodnje iskanje imena

An ageing narrator sets out on a crusade through his own life, opening with a playful guide to his family before moving back and forth through the decades of a century he calls both beautiful and terrible. At the centre stands his father, a small, round man who was always right, who had a gift for endless stories and who gave his son the freedom of a stubborn individualist. The boy, prayed for by his parents and named Jože rather than Anton after his father, grows up between poverty and wealth, admiration and contempt, fascinated by the aloof figure of Josip Reich, the Mr Pepi of the title. The search for the right name becomes a search for identity.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

683 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, 20th century

First published

2000 by Obzorja

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9789612301217 (original)