- Publisher: Mladika
- Author: Alojz Rebula
- Original title: Apokrif
In the work Apocryphon, which the author only dictated due to his poor eyesight, Alojz Rebula tried his hand at a new literary genre, accompanying and respectfully supplementing the Gospel narratives with his own imagination, discussing the psychological characteristics of both Christ and some of the protagonists of early Christian tradition. Anyone expecting sensational or even heretical accents will be disappointed, but the text contains eternal questions about the meaning of life, the afterlife, suffering and evil in the world, God's mercy and God's love for man and creation. The writer also paid tribute to the beauty of nature in these short stories.
Alojz Rebula
Academician Alojz Rebula (Šempolaj (Italy), July 21, 1924 – Topolšica (Slovenia), October 23, 2018) was a classical philologist, professor at Slovenian schools in Trieste, writer, translator, essayist, editor, lecturer and Catholic thinker. The list of his works is astonishingly rich and colorful. Several of his books have been translated into different languages and he has received a several awards, recognitions and honors for them. Among his most famous works, we mention only a few: the novels "V Sibilinem vetru" (In Sibyl's Wind), "Senčni ples" (The Shadow Dance), "Zeleno izgnanstvo" (The Green exile), "Jutri čez Jordan" (Tomorrow across the Jordan), "Nokturno za Primorsko" (Nocturne for Primorska), "Ob pritoku Jangcekjanga" (Along a tributary of the Yangtzekyang); collections of short stories "Vinograd rimske cesarice" (The Vineyard of the Roman Empress) and "Snegovi edena" (Snows of Eden); diaries "Gorje zelenemu drevesu" (Woe to the green tree), "Oblaki Michigana" (Clouds of Michigan), "Vrt bogov" (Garden of the Gods), "Previsna leta" (Overhanging Years), "Iz partiture življenja" (From the score of life); a collection of essays "Smer nova zemlja" (Direction new earth) and others.
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