Taras Buljba

Mrtve duše

Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.

Taras Buljba

Lovčevi zapisi

A collection of short stories in which the author, in a poetic style, portrays man as the backbone of all events, and the beauty of Russia and the Russian soul in all its fullness.

Gvozdena bujica

Usred leda

"In the Middle of the Ice" (1965) is a travelogue by Estonian writer Juhan Smul from the ship "Kooperacija" of the Soviet Antarctic expedition in 1962, from Estonia across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to the Antarctic station Mirni.

Prozirnost stvari

Behind the ironic-humorous style with which he portrays Hugh Person, the hero of the novel, Nabokov weaves a serious human drama.