Social literature

Hura, još živimo

The novel follows the life of Jakob Formann from 1946 to 1976: from a poor returnee from the war, through business ups and downs, love, marriages and scandals, to becoming one of the richest and most famous people in Germany.

Ili jesmo ili nismo

Either We Are or We Are Not (1933) is Slavko Kolar's most famous collection of short stories. With a satirical and warm sense of humor, Kolar depicts the life of the Croatian village and the common man in interwar Yugoslavia – electoral fraud, bureaucracy

Imati i nemati

To Have and Have Not (1937) follows Harry Morgan, who during the Great Depression engages in smuggling and illegal business to survive. The novel sharply contrasts the rich and the poor, depicting the struggle for survival in a harsh world.

I ne reče ni reči

In Boll's novels, one of the central themes is the attempt to preserve basic moral values ​​in a time of terror, as well as in a period of material prosperity and corruption.

Informator

Informator (1894) is a shorter prose work by Vjenceslav Novak, edited by Slavko Ježić (the third volume of Collected Works). It is one of Novak's most socially engaged texts and is typical of his realistic approach.

Interdjevočka

The novel follows the life of a Moscow nurse who works at night as an "intergirl" - a prostitute for foreigners. The novel depicts moral dilemmas, economic despair and the collapse of values ​​in late Soviet society.

Iseljenici

The book "Emigrants" by the Portuguese writer Ferreira de Castro is one of the most important works of Portuguese literature, published in 1928. Great photomontage and cover by an unknown author from 1940.

Istok – Zapad: roman kineske žene

East and West (1930) is the first novel by Pearl S. Buck. In the form of a confession, it depicts the profound conflict between East and West, tradition and modernity, through her marriage to an American-trained Chinese doctor.

Izabrane novele

A collection of the best stories by Elin Pelin, translated by Ivan Esih. It brings powerful, realistic and warm stories from the Bulgarian countryside – poverty, suffering, cunning, humor and the deep humanity of the ordinary peasant.

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