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Vladimir Bartol (24 February 1903 – 12 September 1967) was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages.
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Alamut is a novel by Vladimir Bartol, first published in 1938 in Slovenian, dealing with the story of Hassan-i Sabbah and the Hashshashin, and named after their Alamut fortress. The maxim of the novel is "Nothing is an absolute reality; all is permitted".
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Alamut, novel written by Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol, published in 1938. The novel and its famed maxim—"Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted," later recast by William Burroughs as "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" in his novel The Naked Lunch —inspired the popular video game series and action-adventure franchise ...
Vladimir Bartol (24 February 1903 – 12 September 1967) was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages.
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In 1938, Slovenian novelist Vladimir Bartol published the novel Alamut. Alamut is a canonical work of Slovene literature, and has been translated into most major literary languages. In his 1984 story The Walking Drum, Louis L'Amour uses Alamut as the setting for the rescue of Kerbouchard's father.
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in San Giovanni, Slovenia. February 24, 1903. Died. September 12, 1967. Genre. Fiction. edit data. Bartol was born on February 24, 1903 in San Giovanni (Slovene: Sveti Ivan), a suburb of the Austro-Hungarian city of Trieste (now in Italy), as the third child of seven children of a middle class Slovene family.
Jan 9, 2023 · Jan 9, 2023. 7 min read. Alamut by V. Bartol: a reflection on the complementarity between fiction and historiography. Written by Vladimir Bartol and published in 1938, Alamut is considered as a classic among the historical fiction genre.