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Papini's "Gog", in the edition with an afterword by Mate Ujević, brings a provocative collection of satirical and philosophical writings that expose human weaknesses, social absurdities and the spiritual crisis of modern man.
The novel's author's motto is "I've always found it strange that writers have to invent things, all you have to do is listen to people's stories, destinies, secrets. Do you know, my child, that everyone in our family has a life for a novel?"
This novel explores themes of human destiny, hope, and despair.
The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall
The Warmian Restoration (1860) is a humorous novel depicting the life of the Slovak nobility (zemans) in the 19th century, their petty intrigues, vanity, disputes over inheritance, and futile attempts to "restorate" the old, decaying nobility.