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Written as a diary from November 1990 to the end of 2001 and published after the author's death, the book follows an old writer living on the sixth floor of a tower block in Ljubljana, half on the side of the living and half already among the dead. Fragments of memory, dreams, half-forgotten quotations and daily events take him back from his school years in Ljubljana to maturity, and through the main stations of his life and work. He settles his last accounts with life, with writing and his profession, with dangerous love and family ties, and with Slovenes and Slovene identity, while constantly questioning the meaning of writing itself.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

479 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, 1990–2001

First published

2009 by Študentska založba

Author's age

81 when first published

ISBN

9789612422462 (original)