After World War I, social and spiritual tension was evident in the predominantly Expressionist poetry of Tone Seliškar (1900-1969), Lili Novy (1995-1958) and Anton Vodnik (1901-1965), as well as in the plays of Slavko Grum (1901-1949). Between the wars, the novel and short story revival was dominated by Social Realism; particularly outstanding during this period were the works of Lovro Kuhar-Prežihov Voranc (1893-1950), Miško Kranjec (1908-1983) and Ciril Kosmač (1910-1980). Ciril Kosmač reached his peak only after the war, with a shift to a more contemporary mode of narration; his Tantadruj blurs the boundary between reality and fiction. In the 1930s Vladimir Bartol (1903-1967), psychologist by training and Nietzchean by conviction, wrote the eccentric novel Alamut, the story of an Islamic empire whose Emperor retained power by skilfully manipulating his servants' pleasures. Alamut was translated into Czech (1946), Serbian (1954), French (1988), Spanish (1989), Italian (1989), German (1992 - from French!), Turkish, Persian (1995), Arabic, Greek, Korean, Hebrew, Hungarian and other languages. An English translation appeared in 2004 by Scala House Press in Seattle, USA.