Necropolis

With his visual language and exceptional drawings, he has combined the multi-layered story into an atmospheric and harmonious whole. Judging by its many translations and responses, Necropolis is one of the best-written accounts of camp life in world literature. With its important message, a warning against the rise of new forms of totalitarianism, it also strongly appealed to the young Trieste artist and illustrator Jurij Devetak (1997), who succeeded in convincingly capturing the spirit of the prose original.

The illustrator avoided direct descriptions of the camp theme, "in his story, he mainly follows the author, but goes to the bottom of the camp's nihilism and takes on the mission of conveying the writer's tribute to the 'humiliated bones,'" as Zdravko Duša, author of the accompanying text to the comic, summarised his impressions of the first sketches.

Boris Pahor (1913 – 2022) was a Slovene novelist from Trieste, Italy, who was best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre–Second World War increasingly fascist Italy as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor. In his novel Necropolis he visits the Natzweiler-Struthof camp twenty years after his relocation to Dachau. Following Dachau, he was relocated three more times: to Mittelbau-Dora, to Harzungen, and finally to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on 15 April 1945.

Jurij Devetak (1997) is a Slovene illustrator from Trieste, Italy.
Beside Necropolis, in 2019 he drew a portrait of Alojz Rebula for the Slovenian Numismatic Society of Janez Vajkard Valvasor and the Mladika publishing house, while in 2023 together with Marko Kravos they published Deva from Devin and Three Heroes, which earned the 2024 Zlata Hruška (Golden Pear) Award.

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