Taking cues from the wartime epics of Ford Madox Ford and Louis-Ferdinand C矇line, Vitomil Zupan tells the harrowing story of partisan soldier ��erk��and his surreal experiences as a guerrilla
during the Axis occupation of Ljubljana. Running parallel to the jumble of Berk's wartime experiences is his no less peculiar encounter with an old enemy during a vacation at a Spanish coastal
resort. Together, the two men try to make sense of their wartime memories, leading past and future into a danse macabre undermining the certainties of each. A document of the horrors
and tiny comedies of war, and an exploration of the nature of beauty and morality when subjected to the absurdity of history, Minuet for Guitar is an overwhelming literary achievement.
