As Ivo Svetina wrote in a public greeting on his ninetieth birthday, academic Dušan Moravec was "a man whom many would call a 'man of no particularity', as he never wanted to bask in the public spotlight". This was especially true of the last years of his life, which he spent in the company of books and the closest circle of relatives and friends. Few knew that in solitude he wrote an autobiography in which he looked back on his professional and private life. He was a co-founder and the first playwright Ljubljana City Theatre, he founded the MGL Library, which still exists today. In 1962, he took over the management Slovenian Theatre Museum and directed him towards research. He retired in 1975, but did not stop his research work. In the book Flashes of memory He reveals various aspects of his creative path, reports on fellow travelers from the fields of literature and theater, and insightfully comments on the art and society of a certain era.
Dušan Moravec (1920–2015) fell in love with theatre during the so-called Europeanisation of Slovenian theatre between the two wars. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the Faculty of Arts, but shortly after the occupation, he interrupted his studies and became involved in the activities of the Liberation Front. He spent the war partly in Italian camps, and partly in the National Liberation Army as a member of the editorial board and editor for culture at To the Slovenian rapporteurAfter the war, he continued his studies and graduated, persisting for another year at To the Slovenian rapporteur. He was a dramaturge, theatrologist, literary and theatre historian, an honorary member of the Slavic Society of Slovenia and a member of the class for philology and literary sciences of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as a recipient of the Prešeren Fund Award, the Župančič Award, the gold badge of the Borštnik Meeting, the Steri Award and the silver honorary badge of freedom. He wrote a number of monographs on the history of Slovenian theatre and its outstanding individuals. He was a valuable editorial assistant to the collection Collected works of Slovenian writers and a diligent editor of book publications of correspondence between the greats of our literature and theater.
The book was published in co-published by Beletrina and Slovenian Theatre Institute.
The author of the accompanying words is Petra Pogorevc, who is also the co-editor of the book with Špelco Mrvar. The visual material was edited by Tea Rogelj, MA.