Vladimir Bartol

Edvard Kocbek , Bogomil Hrovat , Slavko Grum , Anton Ocvirk , Josip Vidmar and Vladimir Bartol

Vladimir Bartol (born February 24, 1903 near Trieste , Austria-Hungary ; † September 12, 1967 in Ljubljana , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav author and famous for his novel Alamut , which was published in 1938 and translated into German in 1982.

Life

Bartol was born on February 24, 1903 in the village of San Giovanni near Trieste, the third of seven children. His parents Gregor Bartol, post office clerk, and Marica Bartol-Nadlisek, teacher and author, took great care of his upbringing. In his autobiography he describes himself as an oversensitive and somewhat strange child with a great imagination. In his life he was interested in a wide variety of areas, including: biology , philosophy , psychology , art , theater and literature . As a scientist, he collected and researched butterflies. Vladimir Bartol began his school years in Trieste and finished it in Ljubljana , where he enrolled at the university there to study biology and philosophy. He paid particular attention to the work of Sigmund Freud . He graduated in 1925 and continued to study at the Sorbonne from 1933 to 1934 . In 1928 he served in the army in Peterwardein . From 1933 to 1934 he lived in Belgrade . He then moved back to Ljubljana and worked there as a freelance writer until 1941. After the Second World War he returned to his native city, where he spent a decade from 1946 to 1956. He was later elected as a permanent member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), for which he worked until his death after returning to Ljubljana.

Works

• Lopez. 1932 (drama)
• Al Araf. 1935 (collection of short stories)
• Alamut. 1938
  • Alamut. A novel from the ancient Orient. Translated from the Slovenian by Claude Vincenot, French revised by Jean-Pierre Sicre, from the French by Sylvia Antz. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1982, ISBN 3-7857-0638-3 ; ibid. 1993, ISBN 3-404-11990-8 ; ibid. 1997, ISBN 3-404-25310-8
• Tržaške humoresque. 1957 (collection of short stories)
• Don Lorenzo. 1985
• Med idilo in grozo. 1988
  • Between idyll and horror. Novellas. Translated from the Slovenian by Erwin Köstler . With an afterword by Jelka Kernev Štrajn. Klagenfurt: Drava, Mohorjeva / Hermagoras, Wieser 2013 ( Slovenian Library ), ISBN 978-3-85435-683-7
• Mladost pri Svetem Ivanu. 2001 (autobiography)

Web links

• Vladimir Bartol, the Author of Alamut ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , portrait on the website of the Government Communication Office of the Republic of Slovenia, February 2003 (also as PDF )
• Vladimir Bartol: Far Ahead of His Time , excerpt from Rodna Gruda, March 2003