Vitomil Zupan is best known for his semi-autobiographical novels centered on the quest of an individual for his identity in the modern world.
In the 1978 novel Igra s hudičevim repom (A Game with the Devil's Tail), he wrote about a middle-aged man who becomes involved in a sexual affair with his housekeeper, filled with depictions of sexuality and the banality of everyday life, because of which he was accused of pornography.