Taras Kermauner

Taras Kermauner (13 April 1930 – 11 June 2008) was a Slovenian literary historian, critic, philosopher, essayist, playwright and translator.

[citation needed] During his college years, Kermauner started collaborating with a group of Slovene intellectuals and artists who became known as the Critical generation.

They published several magazines, such as Revija 57 and Perspektive, which challenged the cultural policies of the Titoist system in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.

[citation needed] He spent his last twenty years in a small village in the Karst region of the Slovene Littoral, dedicating his time to writing and study.

He dedicated most of his later study to the development of Slovenian theatre and dramatic works, in which he looked for deeper ideological and existential elements.