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Vitomil Zupan (18 January 1914 – 14 May 1987) was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was called Slovene Hemingway,〔(Vitomil Zupan, lovec na izkušnje ), Delo, 18 January 2014〕 and was compared to Henry Miller. He is best known for ''Menuet za kitaro'' (A Minuet for Guitar; 1975) describing the years he spent in Slovene Partisans. In Titoist Yugoslavia he was sentenced to 18 years in a show trial, and upon his release in 1955 his works could only be published under a pseudonym ''Langus''. He is considered one of the most important Slovene writers. ==Life== Zupan was born in Ljubljana, then part of Austria-Hungary. His mother was a teacher and his father, a soldier, was killed in the First World War. At age 18 Zupan, played Russian roulette and shot himself in the head. Although he survived the injury,〔 he was nevertheless prohibited from graduating from secondary school in Yugoslavia. After leaving the country, he traveled for years—earning money as a sailor, ship's stoker, house painter in France, skiing instructor, and professional boxer—across the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and North Africa, all before the outbreak of World War II. Upon returning home, he enrolled in the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Engineering, which he did not graduate from, and read medical textbooks in an attempt to better understand his emotional condition.〔 After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, as member of Sokol athletic movement he joined the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People and participated in its underground activities in the Fascist-occupied Province of Ljubljana until the authorities in 1942 sent him to Gonars concentration camp. After the fall of Fascist Italy's occupation, he in 1943 joined Slovene Partisans, first the fighting units and soon after it the cultural unit where he was assigned to write resistance propaganda theater plays. After the WW II, until 1947, when he fully dedicated himself to writing, he served at the Radio Ljubljana as the cultural programme's chief editor. For his novel ''Rojstvo v nevihti'' ("Birth in a Storm") he was awarded his first Prešeren Award the same year. He married Nikolaja Dolenc and they had two sons, Dim and Martel,〔 however, after the Tito-Stalin split in 1948, he was accused of anti-government conspiracy, spying, antipatriotic activity, immoral acts, murder, and attempted rape, and was in a show trial sentenced to almost twenty years in prison. He was released in 1955 and his two sons were living without their father, similarly to his own childhood. He published his works for several years only under a pseudonym and was again able to publish under his name again from the 1960s on. His best known novel ''Menuet za kitaro'' (''A Minuet for Guitar'') was adapted by the Serbian director Živojin Pavlović for his 1980 film ''See You in the Next War'' ((スロベニア語:Nasvidenje v naslednji vojni), (セルビア語:''Doviđenja u sledećem ratu'')) and Zupan was bestowed with the second Prešeren Award - this time for his lifetime work. Zupan died in Ljubljana in 1987 and is buried in the Žale cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vitomil Zupan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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