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A dreamy book that dives into the best possible prose of the entire European literature of the 20th century.
Uncle Goriot is one of the most famous and important novels by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1835. It is part of his vast cycle The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), and is considered perhaps the most successful work in that cycle.
The work is based on a true event that occurred in Spain in 1933: Aurora Rodriguez killed her daughter Hildegart, a famous fighter for women's emancipation and a cult figure on the political scene of the time.
Jaromil, a young poet raised by a possessive mother, seeks a "real life" in poetry and revolution. His lyrical youth, love, and idealism lead him into conformity and betrayal of intimate relationships – he dies young and unfulfilled.
A short novel by Edo Popović, one of the most important Croatian prose writers of the 1990s and 2000s. The book is part of Popović's "Zagreb Cycle" – a critique of transition without pathos, but through absurdity and grotesqueness.
The novel represents a journey into an alternative world – a world that we all belong to from time to time, but of which we would not want to be a part, a world of paranoia and alienation that we are not entirely sure is just an alternative or the bare tr