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Slovenian Drama in Translation

  1. The Nymph Dies

    They performed Anna Karenina and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. They performed Madame Bovary and Mrs. Chatterley’s Pet. Isolde began to visit the library. Her visits were so frequent that the librarian asked her if she had perhaps taken up the study of comparative literature! They performed at least a hundred scenes from world classics; at first faithfully, then less and less as the author had imagined them, and more and more as the bright Isolde had imagined them.

  2. The Chestnut Crown

    “I’ll tell you a dirty little song. Let’s go to the forest, says the first devil. What will we do there, says the second devil. To look for my mother, says the first devil. What will we do with her, says the second devil. Let’s tease her to death! says the first devil.”

  3. What about Leonardo?

    “The current position of man is such that the center for intuition and the center for feeling have slipped from consciousness into the subconscious, so that man connects with the environment only through the center for thinking, and this center is designated by the word ‘I’.”

  4. Uncle from America

    “I was afraid that I wasn’t enough – that I would look like an empty bag. I had to fill myself up with old newspapers, with imaginary events. With achievements that God had intended for others, even though I had asked him nicely to remember me sometimes too.”

  5. Antigone Now

    “Every now and then someone needs to remind us that there are things in life that are not for sale.”

  6. Sunspots

    On Christmas Day, elderly couple Matjaž and Vera are waiting for the whole family to gather so they can enjoy a festive dinner together. They don’t notice that Santa Claus has approached the house, sneaked in through the window, and secretly poured the contents of his sack into the wine on the table.

  7. Final Innocence

    Bosnia during the war. An American journalist, Mary, and Major John are trapped in a mountain hunting lodge during a snowstorm.