Susan Sontag's latest novel, inspired by the real-life Polish woman Helena Modjeska. Sontag, through an ironic, erudite style, explores emigration as an existential escape: America is not a paradise, but a mirror of European weaknesses.
It is a deeply disturbing text, full of emotions and traumatic experiences of a collapsed, imploded urban individual crying out for the meaning of life.
Cronin's moving story of redemption. Robert Shannon, a fanatical doctor-researcher, sacrifices love and life for science, but in the end loses everything – his girlfriend, recognition, health – only to realize through suffering: medicine without humanity
Otokar Keršovani, 1966.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.