Vladimir Bartol

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Vladimir Bartol was a Slovene author, best known for his 1938 novel Alamut. His writing was influenced by contemporary political events, including the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and ethnically motivated attacks on Slovenians by Italian fascists. Bartol used allegory in Alamut to critique the rising fascist movements of his time.1

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Alamut
…novel written by Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol (1903–67), begun while the author was living in Paris in the early 1930s and published in 1938. The novel and its famed maxim “Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted,” influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche and later recast by William S. Burroughs as…
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…novel written by Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol (1903–67), begun while the author was living in Paris in the early 1930s and published in 1938. The novel and its famed maxim “Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted,” influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche and later recast by William S. Burroughs as…
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