during his lifetime, javoršek was considered a controversial and unique personality. his dubious relationship with the establishment, as well as his sometimes extremely acrimonious attacks on the contemporary literary circles, both slovene and french, gained him the nickname "the lonely rider". his last work, "memories of the slovenes", published partly posthumously in three parts, created a controversy and shed a new light on the slovene literary and cultural scene of the war and postwar period. among the several scabrous details described by javoršek in the copious work, are the misdeeds of the influential thinker dušan pirjevec ahac allegedly perpetrated during the war resistance, as well as the conduct of notable personalities such as the literary critic josip vidmar and the poet edvard kocbek, for whom javoršek worked as a personal secretary. the work also includes details about the personal lives of slovenian communist leaders edvard kardelj and boris kidrič.