DESETI BRAT

AUDIO BOOKS

Reader: Iztok Mlakar

Directed by: Alen Jelen

Duration: 9 ur 56 min

Format: Digitalno

Code: 117565

EAN: 3838898117565

In the year of Josip Jurčič RTV Slovenia (ARS Programme, Radio Koper and ZKP RTV Slovenia) and SNT Nova Gorica are releasing the audio book of his novel Deseti brat (The Tenth Brother). The audio book is narrated by an acclaimed actor Iztok Mlakar and directed by Alen Jelen and his assistant Renata Vidič. The audio book has been financially supported by the Slovenian Book Agency. The audio book is a part of the collection of Slovene literary classics and contemporaries.

Iztok Mlakar during the reading (photo: Andraž Gombač, Primorske novice)

About the book The Tenth Brother

The Tenth Brother is the first novel in Slovene. It was published in 1866 in Klagenfurt. The novel follows the life of Lovre Kvas, a young scholar, who has to somehow earn enough money to go to university in Vienna, and therefore accepts the position of a home-schooling teacher. He moves to a town called Slemenišče where he lives with a wealthy family. The family are the master and his wife, their twenty-three-year-old daughter Manica and their nine-year-old son, Balček. They are all very nice and Lovre starts to develop feelings for Manica. His newly made friend, Martinek Spak, who calls himself the tenth brother, supports their relationship. Marijan, a family friend who is also in love with Manica and always thought he would marry her someday, is very unhappy when he sees Lovre and Manica are in love. He gets into a fight with Martinek and ends up shooting him and is hit over the head with the shotgun in return. Martinek dies and Marijan's father, who was also the father of Martinek from a previous marriage, decides to tell Marijan the truth about his past. He then commits suicide. Because Marijan's father left his estate to Lovre, the latter can now return after being banned for his affair with Manica. The two get married and Marijan marries another woman so the story has a happy ending.

The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1982.

About Josip Jurčič

Josip Jurčič (4 March 1844 – 3 May 1881) was a Slovene writer and journalist. He was born in Muljava. He died from tuberculosis in Ljubljana. Jurčič followed the literary program proposed by Fran Levstik and was one of the most influential Slovene romantic realists.

Production details

Narrator: Iztok Mlakar

Director: Alen Jelen, assistant director: Renata Vidič

Audio engineer: Vojko Kokot

Recorded in: RC RTV Koper-Capodistria, Studio 6, june - july 2021

Mastering: Radio Slovenia, Studio 15, Vjekoslav Mikez

Released in a cooperation with:

RTV Slovenia, Radio Slovenia, Programme ARS, chief editor: Ingrid Kovač Brus

SNT Nova Gorica, director Mirjam Drnovšček

℗ & © 2021 ZKP RTV Slovenia, Kolodvorska 2, 1550 Ljubljana

Head of Publishing House: Mojca Menart

Ljubljana, november 2021. All rights reserved

The audio book has been financially supported by the Slovenian Book Agency