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The main character, Ivan, explores his roots and family history. Through his travels and encounters with different people, the novel explores themes of identity, belonging, love and the past.
A short novel or a longer story, Izgubljeni zavičaj (1955), established Novak as one of the most important writers of Croatian existentialism.
The very title of the novel tells us how Kozarac was preoccupied with the uncultivated, dead land that is waiting for a man, a hardworking peasant, who will cultivate it. He called it "dead capital".
She is a lower virgin and a harlot, and a faithful wife and an adulteress, and an angel and Satan. This is a portrait of a lady who, doing evil to others, did evil to herself.
In the book, the author considers topics from the perspective of puberty, exploring his own thoughts and experiences.
With a little imagination, we can imagine in the place of Jose, the heroine of this novel, any young woman who wants a different life than life in the middle-class parental home.