Apocalypse cow epub6/3/2023 ![]() ‘When did she say that?’ he asked anxiously. I think she still loves you, at least that’s what she said.’ ‘She doesn’t want to give you false hope. ‘I don’t understand – the fact that she doesn’t want to meet up for a coffee is what hurts me the most.’ ‘I think she just doesn’t want to hurt your feelings.’ ‘Why is she so withdrawn around me?’ he asked sulkily. But how many more times?’ Aleksander replied. While Aleksander, despite now being a married man, was able to appreciate the crowds of girls – some younger, some older – parading past them along Petkovšek, Matjaž was seized by one single image and one single thought. No, they talked about the same issue that had been on the agenda every day and night for the past two months, since Matjaž had broken up with Sara. They didn’t talk about work and they didn’t even ask how each other’s parents were. They didn’t catch up on the escapades in which they had found themselves over the past three days, since they had last seen each other in this very same place. Matjaž and Aleksander didn’t talk to each other about their holidays, and they didn’t discuss the worrying political situation, or the crisis, or how the EU had become detached from its citizens. If memories of these escapes to more beautiful places had already faded, they grumbled about the government, parliament, the courts, the president, or, if they had drunk enough, their work, wives and children. Sitting around on Petkovšek Embankment was the easiest way to meet up with friends, to have a beer, and to tell stories about what had happened by the sea. Once again it was packed with hordes of people, who in late August had checked back into the capital, into their small, enchanting city and their favourite bars after their holidays. Matjaž, who had already lit his tenth cigarette in a row, received a blank look from his friend, who was taking in their surroundings on the Petkovšek Embankment. ‘What do you know!’ Matjaž retorted, looking at Aleksander reproachfully. Kat and the Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse None Like Her marks her full-length literary translation debut. She has previously translated a selection of short stories, poems and literary extracts including the prize-winning ‘Dry Season’ by Gabriela Babnik for the European Commission’s European Union Prize for Literature. research explores the sociocultural functions of translated literature in Slovenia since 1991. Lenček prize in 2013 by the Society for Slovene Studies for her essay on translating the poetry of Dane Zajc. OLIVIA HELLEWELL is a literary translator from Slovene and a doctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham. Ni Druge (None Like Her), her literary début, was well received critically when published in Slovenia in 2015 and now appears in English for the first time. An anthology of writings about Lubitsch, Lubitsch Can’t Wait, was published in English in 2014. She has co-edited a couple of anthologies, one on contemporary television series and another on Ernst Lubitsch. Her philosophical research focuses on films, television series, the star system and aesthetics, and she has contributed to several studies on these topics. She writes for Delo, the largest national newspaper in Slovenia, where she notably published an exclusive interview with Julian Assange in 2013. 1979) is a Slovene journalist, columnist and philosopher. The other titles in the Slovenian Season are Three Loves, One Death by Evald Flisar and Panorama by Dušan Šarotar None Like Her marks the arrival of a witty and fresh new voice, and the novel is one of the first titles in the World Series by Peter Owen Publishers in association with Istros Books, bringing some of the best contemporary writing from Slovenia to English-speaking readers. ![]() ![]() Their preoccupations – drawn with coruscating dialogue – will speak directly to Generation Y, and in Matjaž, the hero, Jela Krečič has created a well-observed crypto-misogynist of the twenty-first century whose behaviour she offers up for the reader’s scrutiny. The women he selects are wildly different from one another, and the interactions of the characters are perspicuously and memorably observed. ![]() In this comic and romantic tale a chapter is devoted to each new encounter and adventure. To prove that he has moved on from his relationship with her, he embarks on an odyssey of dates around Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Matjaž is fearful of losing his friends over his obsession with his ex-girlfriend. ![]()
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