With its echoes of fellow Austrian novelist Robert Musil's novella Young T?rless, and of G?nter Grass's The Tin Drum, Florjan Lipuš's "Young Tjaž," first published in 1972, helped moved the critique of Germanic Europe's fundamental social conformity into the postwar age.

With its echoes of fellow Austrian novelist Robert Musil's novella Young T?rless, and of G?nter Grass's The Tin Drum, Florjan Lipuš's "Young Tjaž," first published in 1972, helped moved the critique of Germanic Europe's fundamental social conformity into the postwar age.