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.
Milčec is still just as in love with the city. He conquers it just as youthfully. The siege of Zagreb has made no one smaller. The city grows and the conqueror continues to conquer the unconquerable.
The novel "U registraturi" was published in 1888, in sequels in the literary magazine "Vijenac", and was published as a book only in 1911, and represents the peak of the work of Ante Kovačić (1854-1889), Croatian novelist and poet.