Zmagoslavje podgan

In Vienna, a city of glittering theatres and wretched brothels, Slavko Grom is finishing his medical studies, but what drives him is the play he has long been planning, Goga, in which he wants to capture the misery, numbness, madness and horror he meets at every step and that has begun to live inside him. Alcohol, morphine and cocaine feed his visions; lectures on psychoanalysis, music and the theatre feed his imagination. Back in provincial Ljubljana he is just as alone with his ideas. Alongside the writing runs his love for Josipina Deželak, whom he loves deeply but not enough to live an ordinary life. The novel freely reimagines the life of the playwright Slavko Grum.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

308 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Austria, Slovenia, 1920s

First published

2005 by Cankarjeva založba

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789612314613 (original)

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