Edvard Kocbek

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Edvard Kocbek

Slovene poet

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Slovene literature
…the finest of Slovene writers, Edvard Kocbek, had been ruined because he dared to portray the Partisans of World War II objectively, in his masterpiece Strah in pogum (1951; “Fear and Courage”). Powerful currents from Europe and America—including existentialism, the absurd, stream of consciousness, magic realism, neoexpressionism, modernism, and postmodernism—soon…
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…the finest of Slovene writers, Edvard Kocbek, had been ruined because he dared to portray the Partisans of World War II objectively, in his masterpiece Strah in pogum (1951; “Fear and Courage”). Powerful currents from Europe and America—including existentialism, the absurd, stream of consciousness, magic realism, neoexpressionism, modernism, and postmodernism—soon…
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The arts of Slovenia
Poet Edvard Kocbek was prominent during and after World War II; an antifascist, he suffered at the hands of former comrades.
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Poet Edvard Kocbek was prominent during and after World War II; an antifascist, he suffered at the hands of former comrades.
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