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Slovenes, (the people who form ) a nation of two million in the
heart of Europe, achieved independence for the first time in their
long history with the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991. Having
settled in the Alps in the sixth century AD, they succeeded in
preserving their language, identity and culture largely through
poetry and fiction: their greatest national hero is not a general
but a romantic poet. With the arrival of independent statehood and
membership of the European Union and NATO, Slovenian literature has
been freed of its function as the guardian of national identity and
is now allowed to explore the realm of literary imagination without
the former burdens of attendant duties. While not ignoring their
great literary tradition of the past centuries, contemporary
Slovenian authors no longer concern themselves predominantly with
national issues; their writing is personal, inventive and open
outward, even cosmopolitan, yet without losing its specific Central
European flavor. The thirteen stories by thirteen leading Slovenian
authors selected for this anthology have all it takes to make the
reader turn the pages: style, suspense, irony, dark secrets,
intellectual game playing, emotional charge, human warmth, and
more.
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