Kranjec's trilogy Povest o oblasti (The story of power) was intended to show the socialization of the village during the post-War period nad the problems accompanying this process. The author's first novel Pisarna (The Office) was not a success, his second novel Pod zvezdo (Beneath the Star) gave a considerably more authentic depiction of real life, so that the main character, Naci Koudila, the party secretary and activist, is not only the agent of socialization but the person who sets going and directs the whole social-political life of his village. He finds solutions to problems as a soldier of the Party convinced that this is how it should be. After a few years it becomes clear that the experiment with cooperatives has failed. Zemlja se z nomi premito (The Earth Moves With Us) is the most challenging novel because of the author's courage to place his hero in a delicate situation: having been thrown out of politics, he becomes a rich landlord, the people against whom the former secretary had fought! Amidst new circumstances Koudila tries to think as a farmer. He now realizes that the state's dealings with farmers were wrong and that socialism had failed to solve certain basic questions (poverty, seasonal labour, the conditions of life). Ideology and the farmer could not reach an understanding. Koudila looses his balance: he has been defeated by life that cannot suffer experiments and paragraphs. His transformation into a farmer and his return to the soil, the only firm foundation, will not yield full happiness nor will it disburden him of the doubts tearing him asunder.
