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"Colas Breugnon" is a charming romance of life in Burgundy three hundred years ago. It is an "autobiographical" novel, the story being told in the first person by Colas, who reviews his fifty years of life, and describes all its joys and sorrows.
In this work, written during World War I, Rolland contrasts the destructive hatred with the joy of life, humor, and solidarity. Kola is a kind of Burgundian Falstaff or Rabelais' Gargantua – rough but noble, earthly but deeply humane.
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
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the first truly realistic children's novel, not only in American but also in world children's literature. Twain's most famous work and a favorite children's book in which the writer described his boyhood experiences.
The debut work of Croatian writer Tomislav Šovagović, awarded the Josip and Ivan Kozarac Award in 2012, is a dedication to Slavonia – the region of his childhood that the author, born in Dalmatia, observes with foreign but tender eyes.
This work, awarded the NIN Prize for that year, is considered one of the most significant in Serbian literature after World War II.