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Veronika, a twenty-four-year-old girl from Ljubljana, seems to have everything one could wish for: she is young and beautiful, surrounded by young men, has a harmonious family and a job that fulfills her. But there is something missing in her life.
The very title of the novel tells us how Kozarac was preoccupied with the uncultivated, dead land that is waiting for a man, a hardworking peasant, who will cultivate it. He called it "dead capital".
The main character Oskar Matzerath, born in Gdańsk in 1924, tells his life from the point of view of a three-year-old child. On his third birthday, he decided not to grow up, and from that day on, his story about the view of the adult world begins.
In addition to the autobiographical work "My Universities", this volume also contains the autobiographical stories The Watchman, Korolenko's Age, On the Harmfulness of Philosophy and On First Love.