The Visoko Chronicle (CEU Press Classics
Ivan Tavčar, "The Visoko Chronicle (CEU Press Classics "
English | ISBN: 963386433X | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 601 KB
English | ISBN: 963386433X | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 601 KB
This historical novel―Visoška kronika in the Slovene original―is about two generations of the owners of the Visoko estate in the Duchy of Carniola, a predominantly Slovene province of the Habsburg Empire, in the seventeenth century. The events of the estate and the fate of its owners are affected by witchcraft persecutions, the mistreatment of Protestants, and the Thirty Years' War. These themes are key to the construction of a Slovene national identity, which was going through a decisive phase as Tavčar was writing. By the time the novel was released in 1919, his nation had left the Habsburg Crown for the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
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