jože javoršek was the pen name of jože brejc (20 october 1920 – 2 september 1990), a slovenian playwright, writer, poet, translator and essayist. he is regarded as one of the greatest masters of style and language among slovene authors. a complex thinker and controversial personality, javoršek is frequently considered, together with the writer vitomil zupan, as the paradigmatic example of the world war ii and postwar generation of slovene intellectuals.