
Veronika Desinićka
One copy is available

One copy is available
Are you interested in another book? You can search the offer using our search engine or browse books by category.
Uncle Goriot is the story of the old war profiteer Goriot and his daughters, who, after robbing him to the skin, leave him to die in the solitude and misery of the Vaquer boarding house, a story that can be read today on several levels.
Spring Waters (1872) is a lyrical novel about first love, the transience of youth, and the impossibility of man to love without losing his innocence or freedom. A classic work of Russian realism about love that changes life but does not save it.
If the stories and their protagonists could choose, the endings would certainly be different. But the rolling speculations that life and literature place under our feet do not care about such things.
At the death of E. Bloom, his son tries to get to know him better. From the scanty data, he transforms his father's life into a series of legends and myths, and through these stories he begins to understand his great failures.