Author : Florjan Lipus
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564789438
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)
Book Synopsis Errors of Young Tjaz by : Florjan Lipus
Download or read book Errors of Young Tjaz written by Florjan Lipus and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its echoes of fellow Austrian novelist Robert Musil's novella Young Törless, and of Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Florjan Lipuš's Young Tjaž, first published in 1972, helped moved the critique of Germanic Europe's fundamental social conformity into the postwar age. But Lipuš, a member of the Slovene ethnic minority indigenous to Austria's southernmost province of Carinthia, wrote his novel in Slovene and aimed it not just at Austrian society's hidebound clericalism, but also at its intolerance of the ethnic other in its midst. When Austrian novelist and fellow Carinthian Peter Handke resolved in the late 1970s to explore his Slovene roots, the first book he picked up was Lipuš's Young Tjaž, which served as his Badeker through the Slovene language, and which he faithfully translated into German and published in 1981.