Miran Jarc, a versatile Slovenian writer who was born at the beginning of the 20th century and died in Kočevski Rog in 1942, also wrote notable essays on art, literary articles and reviews of new books. His eighth book of collected works contains chronologically organised essays on important artistic phenomena of his time, including the reflections "O, človek!" (1922), Umetnost in življenje (Art and Life, 1924) and biographical essays on Kafka, Lawrence, Galsworthy, Tavčar, Župančič and Gradnik.

Between 1920 and 1940, Jarc mainly followed German and French journalism as well as translated Slovenian literature; he wrote articles on foreign literature (especially English, American, German and French), in which he dealt with general phenomena of these literatures, but also with specific names, especially in French literature, which he knew in detail. As literary history has shown, Jarc's reports on books and their authors are more a summary of foreign writings than the fruit of his own judgement. Nevertheless, these articles are of great value for our literary criticism in the interwar period, as many of them were among the first to draw attention to the importance of certain translations in our country (e.g. from French poetry, Norwegian and Flemish literature), not to mention the fact that many of them are the first substantial writings on certain authors (Stendhal, Galsworthy, Cendrars, Céline) in Slovenian.