Taras Buljba

Mrtve duše

Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.

Taras Buljba

12 stolica

A satirical search for hidden treasure in post-revolutionary Russia. Former nobleman Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov and con artist Ostap Bender chase after valuables, exposing the greed and absurdities of Soviet society.

Šinjel i druge pripovijetke

The story of Gogol is a story of tragic talent, mysticism and madness, of a manuscript that burned, of a nose and an overcoat, of an auditor and dead souls.

Jedna Swannova ljubav / Preobražaj / Čovjekova sudbina

The selection of titles of selected high school reading offered in this way is threefold in its thematic focus, which is seen in Proust in the old world, in Sholokhov in the new life, and in Kafka in the unreliable sign of man.

Sabrana djela A. P. Čehova #4: Dan izvan grada

The fourth volume of Chekhov's works contains novellas and humoresques, which were mostly written in 1886. Still writing for a fee in daily newspapers, Chekhov often had to subordinate his art to comprehensibility and cheap humor due to the taste of the r