France Bevk

France Bevk, 1920s

France Bevk (born September 17, 1890 in Zakojca near Cerkno , † September 17, 1970 in Ljubljana ) was a Slovenian writer.

Life

Bevk came from a small village in the Julian Alps in the area of Tolmin (Tolmein) and was the son of a craftsman. Bevk first worked as a teacher, then as a journalist and publicist. He experienced both the First and the Second World War as a soldier on the Soča in the border area with Italy . In the interwar period he lived in the Italian-occupied area of ​​the former county of Gorizia and Gradisca . In Gorizia he published the satirical magazine Čuk na pal`ci from 1922 to 1926 . Bevk wrote most of his most important works under the fascist rule of Mussolini in Italy. The fate of his people under foreign occupation was very important to him. He worked as a publicist and spokesman for the Slovenian national minority in Italy and was arrested several times. After 1943 Bevk was a partisan in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army . After the war, he was chairman of the Slovenian parliament for a few years and, in 1947, vice-president of the Republic of Slovenia. He lived as a freelance writer in Ljubljana.

Bevk wrote about 100 works. He was a very prolific and versatile writer who wrote in all literary genres. Most important are the prose works in which he realistically portrayed the life of the rural poor. But he also wrote historical stories. The main work is the novel Kaplan Martin Čedermac , which deals with the conflict of conscience of a Slovenian pastor in the Italian state, who fights between his duty of obedience to the state and the demands of his people for mother tongue worship and instruction. A natural right of the minority against the unjustified claim to power of the authorities is generally addressed in many of Bevk's works, without lapsing into ostensible nationalistic black and white painting .

Despite his good narrative qualities, Bevk has so far remained almost unnoticed in German-speaking countries. Apart from a few books for young people, there are almost no translations.

Works

Pesmi , 1921 Faraon , 1922 Tatič , 1923 Kajn , Drama 1925 Ljudje pod Osojnikom , novel 1925 Kresna noč , 1927 Hiša v Strugi , 1927 Bridka ljubezen , 1927 Znamesja na nebu , 1927-29 Krvavi jezdeci , 1928 Srebrniki , 1928 Škorpijoni zemlje , 1929 Črni bratje in sestre , 1929 Preužitkar , 1929 Krivda , 1929 Človek proti človeku , 1930 Umirajoči turned Triglav , 1930 Gospodična Irma , 1930 Jagoda , 1930 Stražni ognji , 1931 Burkež gospoda Vitrge , 1931 Obračun , 1931 Vedomec , novel 1931 Lukec in njegov škorec , 1931 Žerjavi , 1932 Železna kača , 1932 Mrtvaška nevesta , 1933 Krvaveče rane , 1933

Gmajna , 1933 Dedič , 1933 Veliki Tomaz , story 1933 Ubogi zlodej , 1934/35 Huda ura , 1935 Greh pogoniča Zidorja , 1935 Zapeljivec , 1935 Pastirci , 1935 Menče , 1936 Bajtar Mihale , 1937/38 (German Mihale the Keuschler, 1940) Huda čarnovnica čirimbara , 1938 Chaplain Martin Čedermac , novel 1938 (under the pseudonym Pavle Sedmak), dramatization: B. Grabnar, 1968 Domačija , 1939 Pestrna , 1939 Med dvema vojnama , novellas 1946 Izbrani spisi , 12 volumes, 1951–63 (selected works) The children in the pasture. Three stories, German 1956 The strong Peter, German 1958 Mladost med gorami , 1960 Iz iskre požar , 1963 The Shepherd Boys, German 1964 The little orphans, German 1964 Im Elend, narrative, German 1964 Pot v svobodo , 1965 Moja mladost , 1969 Toni his unusual adventures, German 1971 A difficult way, narrative, German 1972

Afterlife

In the birth house of France Bevk in Zakojca there is now a museum. The Nova Gorica library bears the name of the writer (Goriška knjižnica Franceta Bevka), as does the central square in the city center (Bevkov trg).

Web links

Wikisource: France Bevk  - Sources and full texts (Slovenian)

• Literature by and about France Bevk in the catalog of the German National Library