Name: In ljubezen tudi
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ISBN: 9789612842758

And Love Itself

In ljubezen tudi

Drago Jančar

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Genre:: Novel
Year of publication:: 2017
Number of pages:: 352
Rights sold:: Austria (Paul Zsolnay Verlag), Bulgaria (Matcom), Croatia (Meandar Media), Czech Republic (Albatros Media), France (Phébus), Hungary (Metropolis), Israel (Lesa Books), Italy (La nave di Teseo), Netherlands (Querido), North Macedonia (Ars Lamina), Poland (Sedno), Romania (Editura Univers), Russia (Rudomino), Serbia (Arhipelag), Ukraine (Dukh i Litera)
Available reading materials:: English pdf, French pdf, German pdf, Italian pdf

After the occupation of Yugoslavia by German forces in 1941, the Slovenian city of Maribor, historically a German-speaking town with a large German minority, is annexed to the Third Reich. In the city renamed Marburg an der Drau, neighbours and friends are torn apart and a resistance movement is organised in the surrounding hills. The three characters at the heart of the novel, Valentin, a partisan resistance fighter, his girlfriend Sonja, and the SS officer Ludwig, once called Ludek, each try in their own way to defend their love from the senselessness of evil and the downfall of human dignity. The war upsets their perceptions of the world and of themselves and inevitably breaks their lives apart. And Love Itself, the title taken from Lord Byron’s So We’ll Go No More a Roving, is an astonishing tale of the will and resilience of the human spirit, set against the backdrop of historical coincidences and tragedy. Jančar poses complex questions and exposes the essential dilemmas faced by mod ern man, all in his characteristic expansive style, interspersed with extraordinary lyrical inserts.

A striking novel about the power of love by likely the greatest living Slovenian writer, recipient of a record-breaking 4th Kresnik Award for best novel of the year.

Kresnik Award for best novel of the year 2018

Longlisted for Europese Literatuurprijs 2020

Latisana per il Nord Est Award 2023

And Love Itself is not, as the title may suggest, a love story, nor is it a historical novel, it is first and foremost a novel about love. More than a story of a love affair, and more than the story of the war in which this love found itself, it is a novel about the individual’s effort to protect and preserve love, in spite of it all.

Delo
A superb novel, both sensual and serious.

Le Figaro magazine
Drago Jančar, one of the best European novelists, blends an important time in history with a history of a love to form the anatomy of horror.

Transfuge
Drago Jančar is a born storyteller.

L’Hebdoscope
A history of the entire 20th century.

Il Piccolo
In his new novel, Jančar paints an immense historical fresco.

Il Giornale