David Miller's novel Meet your enemy came out in the feuilleton of Delo newspaper in the summer of 1983. 67 sequels were published but the novel has never come out in book form. As for the genre, it is a spy novel which makes it classified as trivial literature. The author, Englishman by nationality, chose Slovenia, strictly speaking, its most visited tourist sites Bled and Bohinj, for the narrative space of the novel. Therefore, it is necessary to be familiarized with some basic concepts of comparatist discipline called imagology which studies images of foreign in a literary work. Through the story we follow a murder investigation of an English personage and at the same time discover the beauties of Slovenia and its inhabitants; even the greatest Slovenian poet France Prešeren is not omitted. Since Slovenia was one of the republics in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at that period, the narrator also slightly touches the political organization of the country and its economic situation. In the novel, there are also several famous, mostly English personalities among which Agatha Christie, very popular author of spy novels, should be highlighted.
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