This is a space for exploration. A collection of essays, ideas, and inquiries into literature, art, and the cultural currents that shape our world. These are the thoughts behind the novels.
“I create literature, I exist in the global republic of letters, and I participate in the development of an art that has always been shared by the entire human race.”
“The rich are the only true characters we have. The rest of us lead our lives in the eternal blur, on paths so limited they might as well be invisible.”
“Why must the artist be blameless to offer you pleasure, when you are not as you offer it to yourself?”
Pale Freedom (2018)
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Pale Freedom is a collection of fourteen essays thinking about our “connected” daily lives and how art will be able to coexist with them. In an agile, engaged, and intricate language, the author wonders whether non-choice is an aesthetic principle, what is the difference between an artist and a cultural creator, what are the possibilities of the Slovenian genre novel, what is the deal with a debt-based economy, with rising inequality, with the consolidation of economic and political elites, with meta modernism … Explorations of the literary, the political, and the historical lead him to broader existential themes: on the meaning and purpose of our being, on the nature of the real, and on freedom. His thoughts are firmly anchored in the opening decades of the 21st century that saw the financial crisis, the Arab spring, Occupy Wall Street, the student’s “assault” on the parliament building, terrorism … Lucid and humorous, and always dignifiedly poetical analysis coming from one of the most distinct and original voices of the new generation.
“The reader can enjoy a refined literary discourse, in many ways approaching prose, charged with suggestiveness, that through the meanders of belletristic rhetoric equally addresses both their aesthetic sense and their need for reflection.”