Slovenian trilogy Alice in crazy country by Evald Flisar

Blažić, Milena Mileva (author)

Evald Flisar (1945) is contemporary Slovenian editor, play writer and writer. He studied Comparative literature at University of Ljubljana and English language and drama at Chiswick Polytechnic in London. He is cosmopolitan oriented adults author who wrote numerous drama and novel for adults. Lewis Carroll The Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) influenced to Slovenian author. Evald Flisar wrote Alice in Crazy Country as fantasy (2008), Alice in Crazy Country: Ecological Farce as drama (2010) and also as comic novel Alice in Poterunia (2013) for children as well as adults. The Flisar’s text is crossover genre (fantasy, dystopia, ecological, nonsense, political narrative) for crossover audience and for three different media (fantasy, drama, comic). Flisar’s Alice in Crazy Country (2008) is inspired by Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1865) but also differences e.g. allusions to nonsense politics in Slovenian or EU context. Flisar’s Alice is also the trilogy, where the dystopia is central for children and adult’s civilization.

• Language: Unknown
• Keywords: socialna utopija
• Work type: Not categorized
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: 5-6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-72178
• Publication date in RUL: 08.09.2015

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown
• Keywords: children's and youth literature