Jože Javoršek
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Jože Javoršek
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October 20, 1920 Velike Lašče, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now in Slovenia) |
| Died | September 2, 1990 Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Occupation | Playwright, Writer, Essayist |
| Literary movement | Existentialism, Surrealism, Theatre of the Absurd |
Jože Javoršek was the pen name of Jože Brejc (20 October 1920 – 2 September 1990), a Slovenian playwright, writer, poet, translator and essayist. He is regarded as one of the greatest masters of style and language among Slovene authors. A complex thinker and controversial personality, Javoršek is frequently considered, together with the writer Vitomil Zupan, as the paradigmatic example of the World War II and postwar generation of Slovene intellectuals.
Javoršek was born as Jože Brejc in the small Lower Carniolan town of Velike Lašče, in what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. During his student years, he became involved with Slovenian Christian Socialist groups, where he met the poet and thinker Edvard Kocbek. Kocbek had a huge influence on Javoršek, encouraging him to pursue a literary career.
During World War II, Javoršek joined the Partisan resistance, where he fought alongside later philosopher and literary critic Dušan Pirjevec Ahac and writer Vitomil Zupan. It was during his underground activity in the Italian-occupied Province of Ljubljana that he adopted the pseudonym Jože Javoršek. After the end of the War in 1945, he worked as the personal secretary of Edvard Kocbek, who was appointed Minister for Slovenia in the Yugoslav government. He continued his studies at the French Sorbonne and shortly worked as assistant at the Yugoslav embassy in Paris. In the French capital, he frequented the circles of French left-wing intellectuals; among others, he became acquainted with Albert Camus and established a close friendship with Louis Guilloux, Gérard Philipe and Marcel Schneider.
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