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Bohumil Hrabal, a Czech writer known for his lyrical grotesque and humor, in his novel The Town Where Time Stood Still evokes childhood in the small town of Libeň (part of Prague), where time seems to stand still in a magical but melancholic world.
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
The disturbing and emotionally exhausting story tells about a painter who, with her artistic passion, opposed the expectations imposed on her by her parents.
This is a biography about my father made up of memories and mere imagination. History does not exist, and neither do facts. The past is unknown.
This is an accusation, a slander, a personal insult. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a continuous insult, a spit in the face of Art, a foot in the tur against God, Man, Fate, Time, Love, Beauty...whatever you want.
In The House Where the Devil Dwells, Tribuson also thematizes the time of new poverty, crazy jokes on the way to earning money, usury, jealousy, revenge, strikes, and murders.