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The Buddenbrooks is not just a family chronicle – it is a profound, melancholic fresco of how time and change inexorably creep into the core of a respectable bourgeois family, bringing with them a downfall that is both tragic and inevitable.
People always think they know who the sponsor is: a calculating, not-so-bad-looking woman who married for money.
This short novel deserves to be called a classic. Its heroine, Holly Golightly, an eccentric young woman with a whimsical and unconventional demeanor, simply gets under the skin of the people around her and the readers of this novel.
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 kick in the ass to God, Man, Fate, Time, Love, Beauty...whatever you want.
Uncle Goriot is one of the most famous and important novels by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1835. It is part of his vast cycle The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), and is considered perhaps the most successful work in that cycle.
Can you face the taboos of modern society? Old age, illness, weakness. Slavenka Drakulić bravely enters into topics we are reluctant to talk about.