The Last Man

The author is trying to answer many questions that arise every day in the ordinary life of a human being. The main theme is world pandemics, which was a pretext for the depopulation of the planet. But the real story is far beyond that. The creation of the world we know and its inevitable end, which was sped up with the eternal temptation of the human, Being God (borrowed from Salvador Dali’s opera Être Dieu). Those who could not resist the temptation of being God took the fate of the world into their own hands and shaped it in their own image.

… We were born for them, we were educated for them, we lived for them, and we died for them. When they talked about freedom, they were actually talking about slavery. We were slaves, willing slaves, until we became useless eaters. They kept us alive as long as we were useful to them. When we became old jades, they let us out to graze on the poisonous grass. Those who resisted them were destroyed, declared insane, unfit, the worst enemies …

Jože Mlinarič was born in Slovenia. Since he was eight years old, he knew that he was a writer. In that period he started to write his first novel with a pretty adult theme about pregnancy problems in a young family. He didn’t finish that novel. During schooling he wrote some poems, but he postponed serious work till a later time when he would have more life experience. His first novel came after his stay in Cyprus in 2000, the second in 2013, The Last Man in 2021. He tried to publish his novels, but was unsuccessfull until the 2021 when he met this publisher in the UK.