American literature

Večer u Bizantu

An Evening in Byzantium (1973) by Irwin Shaw is a novel that follows Jesse Craig, a once-successful Hollywood producer in middle age, whose life is falling apart.

Veličanstveni izvor

The Fountainhead is the novel by Ayn Rand, which deals with the themes of individualism, creativity and the fight against conformity. The main character, architect Howard Roark, represents the ideal of an individualist who fights for his principles an

Veliki Gatsby

The Great Gatsby (1925), the cult work of the leader of the American "lost generation". The most famous novel of the American writer thematizes the decline of the American dream and the moral decadence of fashionable American society.

Veliko ništavilo

The second novel from Ellroy's L.A. quartet, a dark noir thriller set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, which explores corruption, power and the moral abyss. The story follows three main characters involved in the world of crime and political intrigue during t

Venecijanski finale

Vesele pustolovine Robina Hooda koji se proslavio u grofoviji Nottingham

The most popular adventurer of the last eight centuries, Robin Hood is a legendary outlaw from Sherwood Forest. He is just and generous, an unparalleled marksman, prone to jokes and songs, "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor" - the true embodime

Vijetnam

Vietnam features Mary McCarthy's travelogues of war-torn Vietnam. The author critically portrays the war, political propaganda, and the dire consequences of the conflict for the civilian population.

Vikend u Parizu

Visoki prozor

The novel High Window, the third in the series about private detective Philip Marlowe, takes place in sunny but corrupt Los Angeles. Marlowe, a cynic at heart, navigates through the glitz of Hollywood, where high windows hide falls into the abyss.

Voda teče, trava se zeleni

In this wondrous and haunting story by a Cherokee writer, strong brash women and ill-fated stubborn men perform a complex dance of approach and avoidance in search of a middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world.