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    Martin Krpan
    If I Only Had Time
    • If I Only Had Time

      • 312 stron
      • 11 godzin czytania

      22 year old Simon, who calls himself Barton Fink, writes a play about a boy who finds out he only has a year left to live. Simon finds his fiction turning to reality when he is diagnosed with spleen cancer just as the character in his lay. Unable to accept that he has just a year left, he wanders the streets of Ljubljana where he meets a homeless man who offers him a ticket to New York. In return he would have to deliver a package. Simon is flabbergasted; the idea that a vagrant on the streets on Ljubljana can have access to a plane ticket and friends in New York seems ridiculous. However he takes up the offer and thereafter his time veers between secrets and suspense. And a stark introduction to reality leading to acceptance and eventually solace. Part fantasy, part thriller, If I Only Had Time is an intense but fast paced literary tour de force that explores aspects of identity and how we identify with personas based on cinema and literature to deal with our not-so-remarkable lives. Of making the most of the time given to us.

      If I Only Had Time2016
      4,0
    • Martin Krpan

      • 60 stron
      • 3 godziny czytania

      Nekoč je živel Martin Krpan, močan in samosvoj človek. Ukvarjal se je s tihotapljenjem angleške soli, zaradi česar ga je oblast preganjala. Nekega zimskega dne, ko je Krpan tovoril sol na svoji kobilici, mu je prišel naproti voz, na katerem je bil sam cesar, ki pa ga Krpan ni prepoznal. Ker se je voz hitro bližal, je Krpan dvignil kobilico in jo brez težav prestavil, da je ne bi povozili. Cesarja je Krpanova moč presenetila, zato ga je ogovoril, nato pa se odpravil naprej. Leto dni po tem dogodku je po Dunaju začel razsajati strašen velikan Brdavs. Vabil je vse junake v boj, a ga nihče ni uspel premagati, ubil je vsakega premaganca, med njimi tudi cesarjevega sina. Takrat se je cesar spomnil na Krpana in ga dal poklicati. Ta se je odzval in prišel na Dunaj, kjer je s svojo močjo osramotil cesarjevo orožarno in konjušnico, saj se mu je vsako orožje, ki ga je prijel, zdrobilo v rokah. Za boj z Brdavsom je posekal najlepšo lipo na dvornem vrtu in se s tem zameril cesarici - a si nazadnje le priskrbel orožje in dal privesti z Vrha svojo kobilico, s katero sta šla nato v boj. Martin Krpan je Brdavsu z lahkoto odsekal glavo. Za nagrado je dobil dovoljenje za tovorjenje angleške soli in vrečko zlatnikov ter se zadovoljno odpravil domov.

      Martin Krpan2004