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Bohumil Hrabal, a Czech writer known for his lyrical grotesque and humor, in his novel The Town Where Time Stood Still evokes childhood in the small town of Libeň (part of Prague), where time seems to stand still in a magical but melancholic world.
Predrag Lucić's second book of poetry, after "The Lovers from Verona" (2007), is a collection of irony, melancholy and contempt for canons - a dedication to the "ridicules" of Split, those who have woven their antics into the city's collective memory.
Ignored and harassed by the authorities, surviving on the help of relatives and publishing children's rhymes, this ingenious marginal left behind a veritable treasure trove of strange stories and twisted thoughts in his notes and notebooks.
In the novel Donkeys' Ribs Are Cracking - The Notes of a Town Scribe, Leo Držić humorously brings 17th-century Zagreb to life through the notes of clerk Dominik Pivarić. Through the conflicts between Gradec and Kaptol, a satirical chronicle of power, pett
The birth, childhood, upbringing and warlike exploits of the giant Gargantua: a satire on scholasticism, wars, monasticism and society, with grotesque humour, enormous eating/drinking and utopian ideals.
The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall