Summary of Minuit for Guitar
“Minuit for Guitar” is based on Vitomil Zupan’s experiences as a guerrilla fighter with the Slovene Partisans, an anti-Nazi resistance movement during the Second World War. The novel is told from the perspective of Jakob Bergant Berk, who recalls his wartime guerrilla fighting against the Germans. It shifts between the 1940s and the 1970s, when Berk, while on holiday in Spain, encounters a former German soldier.
Reasons to read Minuit for Guitar
Vitomul Zupan was one of the greatest Slovene writers, and “Minuit for Guitar” is considered his best-known book and a classic of Slovene literature. Zupan was awarded a Prešeren award in 1947 for his novel “Birth in a Storm” (Rojstvo v nevihti) and a second Prešeren award in the 1980s for his lifetime achievements. In between, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison during a show trial in Tito’s Yugoslavia.
Setting: Ljubljana (Slovenia) & Barcelona (Spain)
Original title: Menuet za kitaro
Year of publication: 1975
Nr of pages: 400
